Word: greater
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...taking the bit in his teeth and bolting. The experimenter contrived to connect the bit by two small wires along the reins with a small electric battery which he carried in the buggy. The apparatus was so arranged that the driver could give the horse a shock of greater or less intnsity without injury. The trial was an entire success. The horse after two or three shocks became docile, and obeyed the driver's commands instantly...
...subject, he began by saying, was best stated as "realing in college." Though this simple knowledge how to read gives to man, whatever his other acquirements, the solid basis for an education, yet the library-the greater opportunity here-is neither fully nor wisely used. Before men have learned to choose, they are injured by the tremendous mass offered to them, much of which is trivial, much enervating, much even bad. For reading, like the choice of friends, is serious; no gentleman can spend time upon low-minded books. And the time spent merely upon what is trivial...
...contested elections. The power of small states depends entirely upon the continuance of the present system, for under the system now being discussed, New York city would have more power than the four smallest states in the Union. Also under a change of system there would be a much greater chance for bribery corruption and intimidation...
...subject of Semitic study in America. Among the speakers were Professors Toy and Lyon of Cambridge, Professor Green, of Princeton, and Professor Harper, of Yale. It is understood that the addresses are to be published in a pamphlet, and it is hoped that they may excite a yet greater interest in the important topic to which they relate...
...greater part of the old poetry perished before the period when the cultivated Arabs began to collect the poems of their ancestors. The language of the Bedouins was the standard of purity during the highest period of Mohammedan civilization...