Word: rubbish
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...purifying, preservative. Christ was not paying compliments to his disciples. He was giving a clear and powerful call to duty. Were they to make their influence felt on earth for good? Men of privilege without power are waste material. Men of enlightenment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish. Men of intellectual and moral and religious culture who are not active for good in society are not worth what it costs to produce and keep them. They were meant to be the salt of the earth and the first duty of salt is to be salty. Harvard...
...Schliemann made a great discovery. Upon excavating the so-called hill of Troy, he found it to be a heap of walls, houses and rubbish, for fully half its height. On a hill which was originally sixty feet high, nine different settlements had been built; city upon city. The second city was built high walled upon the first, and was followed by the third, fourth, and fifth, in nearly the same limits, until the builders of the sixth city extended bounds and founded Troy. On Troy were built two unimportant Greek cities and, finally, in the time of Augustus...
...have been able to fulfil it, to keep these lines of psychical and aesthetic distinction more or less clearly in view; to grasp as well as I could and to illustrate such laws of criticism as seemed to me perennial in their application, and to leave aside as rubbish that dead leafage of deciduous facts which is swept rustling to and fro in the avenues of thought by the shifting breath of opinion...
...people of the North were in no mood for trifling and were resolved that there should be some reparation on the part of the South for the blood-shed and money spent. Garfield's speech delivered in congress in 1866 in which he advocated the clearing away the "rubbish" of the South and build up the country on a firm foundation voiced the sentiments of the majority of the Northerners...
...entirely forgotten. Mr. George S. Hale says he once found it here and used it at some private theatricals in Boston but was ignorant that it had been Lord Brougham's. Finally it seems to have been thrown into the cellar by some careless janitor with a pile of rubbish and when, some years ago, Holmes field was filled in and levelled, the rubbish from the old Law school cellar was taken out and emptied there, and it is thougt that the wig was buried with the rest. It seems to me much to be regretted that a souvenir...