Word: sought
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...funds, is to be reopened in the Bahamas under the direction of Dr. William K, Brolks. At its first establishment at Chesapeake Bay and Beaufort. N. C., valuable studies were made in propagation and maintenance of the oyster, which have been published and widely circulated. In 1886 the laboratory sought a wider field, and in June of that year seven students, under the supervision of Dr. Brooks, prosecuted their studies at Green Turtle Key, in the Bahamas. The results were so successful that the next year a party of twelve, consisting not only of Hopkins students. but also of professors...
...exists here in regard to religious matters. The mass of nonsense and falsehoods which has been turned out for a public willing to believe anything without discount, has caused many a true Harvard man to feel the slander keenly. The truth of the matter has never been so eagerly sought for as has the other side. It was not for our Professors to proclaim the injustice of all these untruths in any other than a general way, but it is very fitting and proper that this worthy unofficial article should appear...
...After a few short rushes through the line. Trafford was forced to kick again B. Morison was allowed a fair catch, and his brother was put behind the wedge. Finlay did not like to be separated from the man he had been so intimate with all the afternoon, and sought an early opportunity to fold him in a loving embrace. McClung, however, gained five yards, and Wallis five more. Bliss was given the ball but he fumbled it and John Cranston was upon it like a flash...
...prominent New York gentleman, and a leader among those patriots who combined to throw off the English yoke. It could not have been omitted from a collection which included the lives of the presidents of the Continental Congress. It would of necessity have been included in a series which sought to lay before the people of New York a complete history of the governors of that state. The future Campbell of this country will be compelled to include it in the lives of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court. Jay's services as representative of the Confederacy at Madrid...
...honor and manliness and morality which make independence and originality of life seem very hard; plenty of selfishness, even of selfishness under the rich guise of self-culture enjoined and accepted as a duty, so that public spirit and the open sympathy of democratic life seem often to be sought almost in vain. Plenty of these causes for hesitation and discouragement. Plenty of these signs of how much better the college might be than it is-and yet, in spite of every hesitation, I think your answer still would be that here in college, on the whole, the crown which...