Word: difference
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...felt, in his bluff, great-hearted manliness, his humor, and his sympathy. He loved men and was in turn beloved. Like other men remarkably fertile in plans and suggestions, he found his judgments and conclusions often questioned--no man has been oftener disagreed with; but however much one might differ with him in opinion, one found that the bond of affection grew steadily stronger. No subject that involved the sons of men or their concerns was foreign to his interest; if there was one he had not thought about, he was ready to think about it, and to say what...
...these researches he showed that he had absorbed to a remarkable degree the knowledge of our time in regard to what was once called the Correlation of Forces, and which is now termed Transformation of Energy. I never left him without a mental stimulus which led me either to differ or reflect. His mind was like an electrical discharge in a tube of rarified gas, a flash light, enormously suggestive. He was seen at his best in some meeting of earnest men, unlearned, but men of affairs, capable of grasping fundamental ideas. There he was the scientific protagonist bringing...
...executive committee of the Handball Association is framing a set of rules to be published. One hundred copies will be placed on sale at the C0-operative, and 100 will be sent to universities and colleges throughout the country. These rules will differ somewhat from the code now in use among professional players...
...annual indoor track meet of the Boston Athletic Association will be held in Mechanics' Hall, Boston, on Saturday, February 10. The details of the program will probably not differ in any marked respect from those of previous years. There will be the usual track events, all the practicable field events, and a number of relay races. It is expected that this year a number of prominent western athletes will compete...
...their religious belief, desire to study the doctrines of Christianity in a manner at once inclusive in its scope and in its appeal, thorough in its effort to consider the fundamental and essential elements of the Christian religion, and yet sympathetic toward the views of all who honestly differ...