Word: destroys
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will have the majority in the new Chamber. There is no expectation of violence by either party before then, or of an appeal to arms by the defeated party. The returns from the elections show that the republicans are losing ground, but the fall of the republicans will not destroy the republic. the anti-republicans, composed of monarchists and imperialists, see a possibility of coming into power without revolution, and this turns them away from conspiracy against the government. If they should come into power they will not divest themselves of the immense patronage of the government and the ability...
...elective system tends to separate the classes and to destroy class feeling. To counteract this we should take advantage of every opportunity to cement the class firmly. Few such chances are left to '89, so the members should exert themselves to attend the dinner and contribute their part to increase the good fellowship. Eighty-nine has made a good record in college of which she may well be proud, and she has never been charged with lack of class patriotism. The dinner a year ago was a proof of the loyalty of her members. Her junior dinner was the largest...
...might be and has been elected by the minority of voters. Another point made under this heading was that according to the present system many voters were virtually disfranchised in states returning a large majority in either direction. Under the third head, the argument that the present system would destroy state individuality was claimed by the affirmative as a point in favor of the proposed change...
...Congress, that all combinations giving property to trustees shall be incorporated with charters, and obliged to publish their a ccounts. Upon information filed by the attorney general of any state that any corporation is injurious to the public welfare, the charter shall be taken away. This regulation would destroy the essential character of trusts, and would amount to suppression...
...following notice was sent to the New York Times in reference to the new building at New Haven which is to destroy the much talked of fence...