But now the situation of Europe and especially that of Asia is creating fresh competitions, the expenses for the navies, according to the figures of the various Budgets from 1914 to 1921, have risen in the United States of America from 702 millions of lire to 2,166, in Great Britain from 1,218 millions to 2,109, in Japan from 249 millions to 1,250, in France from 495 millions to 1,083, in Italy from 250 millions to 402.

Raising of horses, peaceful contests in arms, or poetic competitions where each bard recited in public his compositions, formed their amusements.

The cause is plain and not to be denied, The proud are always most provoked by pride; Few competitions but engender spite, And those the most where neither has a right.

The Green Heritage programme had several aspects: (i) the exhibition, (ii) lectures and talks on different subjects and (iii) competitions of different kinds-all related to the green world.

With the payment the matter ended; poetical competitions and honorary prizes, such as took place in Attica, were not yet heard of in Romethe Romans at this time appear to have simply applauded or hissed as we now do, and to have brought forward only a single piece for exhibition each day.(16)

Under circumstances giving a powerful impulse to manufacturing industry it has made among us a progress and exhibited an efficiency which justify the belief that with a protection not more than is due to the enterprising citizens whose interests are now at stake it will become at an early day not only safe against occasional competitions from abroad, but a source of domestic wealth and even of external commerce.

He may play in a few competitions, but his time is more seriously occupied with practice and improvement.

Let me say, in regard to tournaments, that when you are taking your strokes correctly and are really adding to your knowledge of the game, open competitions are admirable, and are essential if the highest honours are to be achieved.

Something like the Beauty Competitions for us other warriors?

The boys carry the sport still further and most local Ski-jumping competitions start with a demonstration by the boys, who often do not look more than 10 or 12 years old, and who go over the big jump as straight as their elders and usually a good deal more gaily, as they have not begun to appreciate the dangers.

Working trials to test the skill of the sheepdog have become frequent fixtures among shepherds and farmers within recent years, and these competitions have done much towards the improvement of the working qualities of the Collie.

Any handful of young men in the smallest country-village, with a very few dollars and a little mechanical skill, can put up in any old shed or shoe-shop a few simple articles of machinery, which will, through many a winter evening, vary the monotony of the cigar and the grocery-bench by an endless variety of manly competitions.

But the evil fate which ever hangs over the competitions of genius was baleful even here, and the barrack-like edifice of Gütner was preferred.

Yet, amidst all the excitements and competitions of trade, their conduct toward each other was polite and kind.

And it seems to me that the establishment of the world's work upon a new basisand that and no less is what this Labour Unrest demands for its pacificationis just one of those large alterations which will never be made by the collectively unconscious activities of men, by competitions and survival and the higgling of the market.

We must not, however, fail to recognise the growth of the new competitive spirit in the sphere of production, and Mr. Punch looks forward to the establishment of Cup Competitions for Clydesdale Riveters and London Allotment workers.

Then the arts of industry and the competitions of peace were to supplant for ever the science of bloodshed.

[Footnote 2: Feis, pronounced Fesh, a musical or literary gathering, with competitions.]

Agriculture in England has to run the gauntlet of many pressing competitions, and carry a heavy burden of taxation as it runs.

The open competitions between different hospitals, and the animosity with which their patrons oppose one another, may prejudice weak minds against them all.

What you call Socialism is his intellectual equivalent for Diabolo and Limerick competitions.

His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old; What interested scholars most, What competitions ran When Plato was a certainty.

In the face of the great competitions into which it must enter, our religion must be ready to give an intelligent account of itself.

Competitors found that songs to the Virgin were given the preference and she eventually became the one subject of these prize competitions.

" "I do not say that all competitions of speed are necessarily wrong, but I do say that the present way of managing races makes them so mischievous that no one ought to encourage them.