41 Metaphors for contribution

Mr. Arundale tells me that he has made a habit of becoming cheerful the moment he enters the College gates, however worried he may have been beforehand, because, he writes: "I want my contribution to the school day to be happiness and interest, and by a daily process of making myself pretend to be cheerful when the College gates are entered, I have finally succeeded in becoming so.

For our present purpose, then, the essential contribution of Bergson to philosophy is his criticism of intellectualism.

Colomb's most important contribution to the art of signaling was his realization of the utility of the code which Morse had developed in connection with the telegraph.

Lamb's previous contribution had been "The Ass" which Hone had introduced with a few words.

The only contribution to this earliest form of the Mirror which is attributed to an eminent writer, is the "Edward IV" of Skelton, and this is one of the most tuneless of all.

" Marriott's great contribution to the movement was his solid, simple goodness, his immovable hope, his confidence that things would come right.

" Quite as indicative of the value he put on education was the aid he gave towards sending his young relatives and others to college, his annual contribution to an orphan school, his subscriptions to academies, and his wish for a national university.

His first contribution to The Hours was a masterful and extended treatise on Dante, which was accompanied by translations which were clearly the most distinguished in that field which the German language had ever been able to offer.

Adequate voluntary contribution is a different matter.

Their united contributions to the guerrilla treasury were two watches, two revolvers, three hundred dollars in money, and their hats and overcoats.

The grain of truth in this assertion lies in the undoubted fact that the whites, with their rum and trinkets and diseases, aggravated the evil; but their contribution was but a drop in the ocean of iniquity which existed ages before these islands were discovered by whites.

The activity of this movement synchronizes with the pressing upward of the "the masses" through the dissolving crust of "the classes," and represents their contribution to the science of political philosophy, as the contribution of the latter is current "political economy.

The first contribution was a chapter on the rights of labor.

Davy's greatest contribution to telegraphy was the relay system by which very weak currents could call into play strong currents from a local battery, and so make the signals apparent at the receiving station.

My own contribution will be a sincere regret that a writer as gifted as Mr. J.C. SNAITH should have attempted the obviously impossible.

De Forest's contribution was a lamp instrument, a three-step audion amplifier.

Their chief contribution to its history has been the loss of the United States.

Lamb's first contribution to that periodical was "The Illustrious Defunct" (see Vol.

His supreme contribution, both to philosophy and literature, was his sense of the sarcasm of eternity.

Defoe's main contribution was the short-story essay, which stands midway between the anecdote, or germ-plot, buried in a mass of extraneous material, and the short-story proper.

But Traherne's most interesting contribution to the psychology of mysticism is his account of his childhood and the "vision splendid" that he brought with him.

My own feelings as a Scotsman, with all their ancestral associations, lead me to cherish their memory with pride and deep interest, I may appeal also to the fact that many contributions to this volume are voluntary offerings from distinguished clergymen of the Church of Scotland, as well as of the Free Church and of other Presbyterian communities.

" Marriott's great contribution to the movement was his solid, simple goodness, his immovable hope, his confidence that things would come right.

His most noteworthy contribution, however, is the 'Preliminary Discourse' prefixed as a general introduction and explanation of the work.

Sir Walter's contribution is a dramatic romance, in imitation of the German; and Lord Byron's are ten letters written by him between 1821, and the time of his lordship's death.

41 Metaphors for  contribution