Word: gradually
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...Politically. 1. Inability and unwillingness to become citizens; Senate Report 76-77, III. 2. Refusal to obey our laws; Nation, vol. 34, p. 337. 3. Secret system of slavery. d. Economically. Injuries to American labor. 1. Impossibility of competition with Chinese; Harper's, vol. 57, p. 927. 2. Gradual encroachment on all occupations; ibid. 3. Concentration of capital; Forum VI, 168. 4. Immigration of white labor discouraged; Senate report...
...minutes before the freshman game last Saturday two successful attempts were made to lower Harvard records, G. R. Fearing, '93, jumping 6 feet 1-4 in., and W. C. Downs running the 1-4 mile in 49 seconds. Fearing came out first. By gradual rises the bar was at 5 feet 10 1-2 in., and Fearing cleared it at the first attempt. Then the bar was put at 5 feet 11 1-2 in, and again Fearing cleared it at the first attempt, beating the Harvard record held by H. L. Clark, '87, by 3-4 inch...
...Asiatic religion, too, the gradual change from polytheism to monotheism is noticeable. In the religion of Persia, too-a religion which seems to have two deities-there was a prevailing tendency toward monotheism. All these nations which seemed to have reached the unitary conception of the Deity, were, it is to be observed, civilized nations. No barbarian tribes ever advocated the theory...
...Hannis Taylor, of Mobile, Ala., has made one of the most important recent contributions to constitutional history, in the form of a treatise on the Origin and Growth of the English Constitution, in which is drawn out, by the light of the most recent researches, the gradual development of the English constitutional system and the growth out of that system of the federal republic of the United States. Mr. Taylor is a writer of the school of Freeman and Fiske, who find in constitutional history a gradual evolution of the principles of government. To students of American history the introductory...
...will not ruin nor seriously injure present landholders. 2. Compensation is overruled by controlling principle.- Thackery, pp. 186-197. 3. Difficulties of accomplishment overcome, (a) by gradual change, (b) by granting the necessary power to congress.- Clarke, pp. 39-41, 4. No further centralization of power is involved; (a) the government is already a large landholder.- Thackeray's The Land and the Community, pp. 138, 174-185, George's Progress and Poverty...