Word: showness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first place, the preparation of almost a whole term's work in a week or ten days, when the receptive faculties of the mind have been in a nearly torpid state for several months, is a terrible strain, which will show its effects upon any one, no matter how strong he may be, both mentally and physically; it is like severe physical labor, after a long period of rest and idleness...
Yesterday, in the Guiteau trial, Davidge delivered a forcible and eloquent speech, bringing out all the salient points in the case, tending to show Guiteau a responsible being. Guiteau has prepared a speech which he wishes to deliver before the jury...
Statisties show that the smallest number of immigrants which has landed in this country in one year since the founding of the bureau of emigration is 54,536. The largest number is nearly...
...with some force, that a lawyer, in order to find out what a witness knows, does not want a written, but an oral examination; that written examinations are often purposely ambiguous in order to hide ignorance, and that, in his experience of thirty years' teaching, "marking does not show, either absolutely or even relatively, the amount of a student's knowledge on any given subject." We should like to get the professor's ideas upon co-education. - [Acta Columbiana...
...very probable that I am," I replied, "just at this moment. The honor of your acquaintance has been so recently conferred upon me that naturally I carry it, as yet, with some little show of vanity...