Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Government ownership and management is at present feasible and practicable. N. A. Review, vol. 142: 227 (Field). (a) Government could resort to paralleling. (b) It has right of eminent domain. (c) Essick machine...
...hissing and stamping, there is but one course of action - that is to close the gallery to visitors. It does not reflect much credit on the better side of a man's nature, if, after making a reasonable appeal to him not to abuse a privilege, one has to resort to the only alternative, that of taking it from him. In this case, however, he is depriving not himself alone, but many others a great deal worthier than he. Yet unless the better element in Memorial Hall can succeed in overcoming this objectionable tendency on the part of the others...
...best way of applying strength to an oar; but when one reflects that distinguished physicians recommend certain remedies and other equally renowned doctors denounce the same remedies one is forced to confess that the only scientific way to decide upon the truth of various theories is to resort to scientific study and experiment...
...ordinary books of reference are monopolized, wordy discussions are the regular thing, and the patience of peaceful readers is put to a severe strain. Of course most of the offenders are lower classmen; and until they are old enough to learn that a library is not intended as a resort other than for the purposes of quiet study, it seems only fair that the privilege of the room should be denied to them...
...impracticable: R. N. Baskin, Argument against Admission Utah-(1) Disingenuous-(2) Limits state sovereignty: House Report, supra, p. 68-(3) Public sentiment does not support it.-(4) Judiciary in the hands of the Mormons.-(b) Mormons untrustworthy and unyielding: Utah Commission, supra 11.-(c) Movement toward statehood a last resort: Baskin, supra...