Word: lessons
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...confession of professional failure. The dentist has not succeeded in keeping them. In many cases, of course, he has had no chance to do so. Anaesthetics and good instruments have robbed tooth-pulling of many of its former terrors. All along, the skilful dentist has been able to lesson or prevent many of the acute pains which disorders of the teeth and jaws frequently cause. He can treat successfully inflamed teeth and abscesses in the jaws, both of which are apt to give exquisite pain. It is much to say of any profession that it reduces the amount...
...Merrill concluded his lecture by quoting at length from a pamphlet by Hiram Maxim, the well-known authority on military aeronautics. Mr. Maxim's opinion is that the development of aerial navigation will lesson the chances of war in that nothing save subterraneous works will be free from the bombs dropped by aeroplanes...
...passed into history, but the great lesson should always be with us; it taught men how to command, and what is more difficult--how to obey. It taught patriotism and the appreciation of liberty, not unbridled license, but that liberty which recognizes obedience. It taught the earth that the American flag is not just a piece of bunting which can be bought at any time for a song, but that it is the emblem of dignity and power of a great Republic, which can never be insulted but millions will spring to its defence...
...rooms have still further changed the interior of the building and have put it on a par with Little's Block for convenience of location and accommodations in the rooms. On the Massachusetts Avenue side of the building new double sashes have been added to the windows to lesson noise from the street. All these improvements, involving an outlay of about $10,000, have been met by a small increase in the price of rooms...
...football team will play its first league game of the season with Columbia on South Field, New York, this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The sudden changes in the line-up on account of the rule forbidding men to participate in athletic contests in more than two seasons, materially lesson the chances of the University team. Columbia has, moreover, a stronger team than last year and has already defeated Cornell 9 to 0, and Yale...