Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...South America" does not justify such a subsidy; (a) Under the present high duties of the countries in question such a trade is impossible-House reports, 1882-83, I. 17-18; D. A. Wells, Our Merchant Marine pp. 202 208; Nation XLIX. 265 (b) Under low duties no artificial stimulus will be necessary for trade...
...real cause for the Spanish Armada was the bitter hatred that existed between the two great religious sects, the Protestants and Catholics. The age, too, was one in which revolutions and great fanatic movements were not only frequent but popular. But the preparations received their final stimulus from the execution of Mary, Queen of Scotts. Before her death she had bequeathed her right to the English crown to Philip II., now king of Spain. The assistance which the revolted Netherlands had received from the English still further roused the Spaniards against them...
...subject. Without intercollegiate contests the freshman teams would fall to the rank of other class teams, which draw out but a few men and give these only a slight amount of irregular practice. It would be doubtful, in fact, whether class teams could be maintained at all without the stimulus of a hard-working freshman team in need of practice and encouragement; but even if they were, the best freshman athletes would have small inducement to train and develope their abilities for later university teams. These facts were recognized by the faculty committee, appointed in 1888 to investigate athletics. They...