Word: tears
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Jones '00, the last speaker for Princeton, said that the negative did not undertake to defend any actions of the present war, but did claim that England's interference was not justifiable. The policy of England in South Africa is tending to tear the races asunder, to destroy all relations that ever existed between England and the Boers. Furthermore, the few instances cited by the affirmative show no more proof of a state of mob law in the Transvaal than our 127 lynchings last year prove that the United States is in a state of riot...
...part, and tended to make the various departments grow farther apart, rather than closer together. One of the first steps taken by President Hadley was to bring about such a change that all departments might profit equally, and, at the same time, a great deal of the wear and tear of management be avoided. During the past week the plans for this have been carefully developed, and an outline of the new arrangement discussed with the faculties...
...good part of the writer's argument falls flat: the correspondents of these papers can have no incentive for "padding." In the next place, I know that there is not a single Harvard correspondent who is not loyal to his university-and more loyal than those carping critics who tear out imaginary gray hairs over the result, instead of seeking to apply a remedy at the ultimate cause the foolish and lawless spirit which some undergraduates are always bound to show on the occasion of an athletic victory. One might as well blame a man or a newspaper for reporting...
...There would be inequality of opportunity from the very start. Then when the crowed had once got around the Tree, there would be a block instead of a lively scrimmage. The dozen men immediately encircling the Tree would be almost the only ones to get flowers. They would probably tear away all they could. Or, even if prompted by more generous motives, they would be unable to get out through the impenetrable mass of men behind them. Each man in the crowed would be so tightly wedged in between four men, before, behind, right and left, that however willing...
...system, amounting, since 1822, to 2,680 million francs. Gold, on the other hand, had moved but slightly during this period, and was kept by law at the ratio of 15.5 times its weight in silver. The supply of gold was nevertheless continually wasting away (1) by wear and tear, (2) by the use of gold in manufacture, and (3) on account of hoarding...