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At one time they would have eliminated all the sports. But we didn't let croquet become the national game! You ask what this nation of ours will become, and in reply I ask you what will you make of your boys? Statisticians tell us that 90 per cent. of the men who go into business fail. Do you want your boy to fold his hands and say that because the chances are against him he will not try at all?
At Clayton's entrance he made a motion to depart, but Hutchinson stopped him. "Tell Mr. Spencer what you've been telling me, Klein," he said curtly. Klein fingered his hat, but his face remained set. "I've just been saying, Mr. Spencer," he said, in good English, but with the guttural accent which thirty years in America had not eliminated, "that I'll be leaving you now." "Leaving! Why?"
Dan brought to his new duties a well-grounded knowledge of the fundamentals of his calling, and his deficiencies, such as they were, were skilfully eliminated by his white-haired mentor, Captain Harrison.
He attended an efficiency congress and came home with a collection of newfangled ideas that eliminated from the office all the joy and contentment old Cappy Ricks had been a life-time installing. He inaugurated card systems and short cuts in bookkeeping that drove Cappy to the verge of insanity, because he could never go to the books himself and find out anything about his own business.
When variations in brightness or in other conspicuous characters occur early in life, as no doubt often happens, they will not be acted on through sexual selection until the period of reproduction arrives; consequently if dangerous to the young, they will be eliminated through natural selection.
Brook Farm was a retreat for transcendentalists a place to meditate, dream and work a place where one could exist close to Nature, and live a simple, hardy and healthful life. Thoreau's retreat would be the same, with the disadvantage of personal contact eliminated. It was in March, Eighteen Hundred Forty-five, that Thoreau began building his shanty.
There was no science then, and we do not know exactly on what principles the choice was made of those who should escape; but the simple history of Noah shows that he and his friends represented the best manhood of that early age. "But the seeds of corruption were not eliminated, and the same problem recurs to-day. "I have to determine whom I will save.
Crime could be completely eliminated only through a third means, namely, the careful training of each new individual in society as he came on the stage of life, so that he would be moral and law-abiding, respecting the rights of others and the institutions of society.
But it was the bid for decision of a Confederacy which was outnumbered in men, in resources, in the ultimate powers of endurance, and was already beginning to feel the growing pinch both in numbers and credit. At Gettysburg Lee made his final effort to destroy the army which he had frequently defeated but never eliminated.
His body lacked fat, and under his swarthy skin bulged great, rigid and protruding muscles an Herculean texture from which had been eliminated every element incapable of producing strength. Labarta found in him a great resemblance to the marine divinities.
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