Word: powers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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partment. He has an admirable accent, but his acting is negative, and lacks power...
Ladies' Parts.Miss Cushing, who takes the part of Athalie, has acted before, in a one-part play of Coppe, called La Parter, and has also read in public. Miss Cushing has been working all summer over her part in the French play. She has distinct power, a fine presence, and a very good French accent...
Question: "Resolved, That the power of injunction, as now exercised by the courts, should be restricted...
...grand plans of Alexander been consummated and Greece become the dominant power in the East and West, results so glorious might have followed as to dazzle the imagination. Greek civilization, sturdier that that of Rome, by escaping the collapse under the barbarian hordes, would have saved the world the Dark Ages. But with the death of Alexander came chaos...
...head of a body of eight, of whom five were devoted wholly to teaching Latin and the others equally to teaching Latin and Greek. Although from his natural conservatism he had taken little interest in the reform by which the sphere of his power as a teacher was thus enlarged, he availed himself to the utmost of his new opportunities and opened his rich store of erudition without stint to all who were capable of appreciating them. His sparkling wit was ever ready to illuminate dark corners in even the abstrusest departments of learning, and he could make the dryest...