Word: phasing
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...hoped before this for a final settlement of the phase of the question now uppermost, but it is believed that a general understanding between all parties concerned is necessary to a satisfactory solution. May we not have long to wait! Everyone is anxious to know where affairs are ultimately to stand; but will agree heartily to the proposed conference, if it is to be a means to a speedy, permanent and more satisfactory...
...abolition of winter sports and stated the reasons that have been repeated so often throughout the long one-sided discussion. The unfair discrimination that would follow the passing of this pending vote is further dealt with in communications this morning, and it is useless to dwell longer on that phase of the question...
This indicates the most important phase of the value of Thucydides's historical work, namely, trustworthiness. Although it took a large amount of firm independence, Thucydides departed entirely from historical methods current in his day and emphasized accuracy as the prime necessity of history...
...writing alike in Europe and in America. So enormous has become the store of materials now available to the historian and so insistent the demand that no important part of this shall be disregarded, that an individual writer who nowadays aspires to deal in authoritative fashion with all the phases and periods of the nation's history may indeed be accounted unduly ambitious. The historical student of our day and generation may well find in the mastery of a single period or a single phase the profitable employment of an industrious lifetime. Hence it has appeared to be only through...
...first requisite in public speaking, he said, is thorough acquaintance with every phase of the subject. The precept which the young lawyer is most apt to disregard is the importance of knowing his opponent's side of the case with the same thoroughness as his own. Clearness, simplicity of language and conciseness are invaluable qualities in public speaking. The last-named in particular is an indispensable asset in stump speaking. A good rule is to have something to say, say it briefly, and sit down...