Word: limited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present comes out of the past and goes down to the future. Evolution but shows the agencies by which God's plans are carried out. It is but the evolution of Genesis when each 'brings forth after its kind.' Science tells the same story. But what is the limit of the fixedness of the law ? I believe that the evolution of new species is a question in science, and not of religion. It should be left to scientific...
...utmost limit of this stage of his experience may be but twenty years ago, and yet he may remember a few things which sound curiously now-a-days Blackheath was then, as now, the great centre of metropolitan foot-ball, although for every match played then on a Saturday afternoon there are now half-a-dozen. Those were the days of "hacking," and scenes which were frequent enough then, nay, which were almost inevitable, would not be tolerated now in the rowdiest of grounds. It was then by no means an uncommon sight to see the ball flying away...
...Camp, of Yale, thus writes to the Clipper: "The intention of the convention was to show the public that we, as players, do not regard off-side play as "cheating" or "dishonorable action" in the least; that it is a part of the play, but we limit it for the sake of the game, the same as we used to limit a pitcher in unfair delivery. Hence the rule that "A player shall be off-side but twice during a game " then, when the referee has said: "You have been off-side twice," he cannot make a third without disqualification...
...house' at the annual conventions of the League and the American Association will be whether it is best to allow an unrestrained freedom of movement in the pitchers delivery-admitting of either a pitched, a tossed, a jerked or an overthrown ball to the bat-or to still further limit the delivery so as to prevent the direct overthrow. There is one evil in connection with the rule of an unrestricted delivery of the ball which requires careful consideration so as to put a stop to it, and that is the effort to intimidate the batsman by willfully throwing...
...testimony introduced at the recent trial of the Fiske will case goes far to prove one of the leading points of the contestant, that at the time of the death of Mrs. Fiske, Sept. 30, 1881, the university already held property exceeding $3,000,000, the limit fixed by its charter. At that time the university, according to the testimony of Treasurer Wiliams, held property to the amount of about $2,800,000, exclusive of about 275,000 acres of Western lands. The suit, however, will be bitterly contested by the university at every point, and may be kept...