Word: striking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Juan, and even Shelley's Adonais have after their varying fashions given the world a false impression; and George Keats's saying that his brother was about as much like "Johnny Keats" as he was like the Holy Ghost is needed-with the ample testimony that supports it-to strike a truthful balance. What Keats's development would have been no man can hope to know. Matthew Arnold has said, "He is with Shakespeare." We can only say that Keats in his later work showed a sympathy with the moral and intellectual life of the world which was wanting...
Prior to this the old style of apparatus was used, made by the college carpenter and arranged any way. The hanging ropes were of tarred hemp and the man who attempted to strike the rough canvas-covered striking bag was usually content with one blow. The pulley weights were swinging iron balls, unguided by rods, which swung and banged, raising clouds of dust. After a man had grasped the cold iron handles he usually found it better to hold on than to let go. After the first few day's work the weak men were eliminated by "unnatural selection...
...things that strike the English speaking person of today most when studying French are the peculiar vowels, such as u, eu and mute e, and the nasal vowels an, en, in, on and un. These difficulties are not found to so great an extent in the French of the eleventh century. The u sound did exist then and seemed to offer certain difficulties to the Englishman of the day. But the eu, as in coleur, apparently did not exist. In its place, however, are found two other sounds, one something like o, and the other a dipthongal sound not unlike...
Work on the Hemenway Gymnasium is now expected to proceed much more rapidly. Dr. Sargent is authority for the statement that the steam-fitters, whose strike has been delaying the work, are expected back today...
...relief could be afforded by throwing open the Carey Building. We believe that the Athletic Association could not refuse the use of the building for bathing purposes if the University would provide an engineer to look after the boilers. To be sure, the University is not responsible for the strike of the steam-fitters who have been at work in the Gymnasium, but things have come to a pretty pass if the cleanliness of Harvard students is to be subject to the dictates of a walking delegate...