Word: certain
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...common with them. The nineteenth century, in which social equality has attained to a greater extent than ever before, has witnessed the birth of great inequality in fortunes. Upon the fortunes of the laboring classes, the progress of a country has really no affect, as is seen in certain periods of French history, especially in the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries...
Your college training confers no privilege upon you save as tested by the use you make of it. It puts upon you the obligation to show yourselves better able to do certain things than your fellows who have not had your advantages. If it has served merely to make you believe that you are to be excused from effort in after life, that you are to be excused from contact with the actual world of men and events, then it will prove a curse and not a blessing...
Fenton's "Certain Tragicall Discourses." First edition...
...York hotel, the second in a broker's office in the same city. The plot centres about James Percival Brown, a recent graduate of Harvard, and Joshua Phineas Brown, a Chicago millionaire, whose initials are accidentally the same. While Joshua P. Brown is expected to arrive at a certain prominent New York hotel, James P. Brown, on the day of his arrival registers at the same place, and, being mistaken for the millionaire, is given a magnificent reception. He also accidentally opens a letter to the millionaire from a certain newspaper, requesting a market forecast. James Brown, more commonly known...
...result of this rule is that certain exceptional men of great athletic ability are prevented from giving the full use of their abilities to their University. They take just as much exercise. They do not one whit more studying. They are merely restrained by this rule from the personal triumphs that are their right...