Word: awkward
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...better to use an English metre or English prose? Professor Norton has judged that the literal prose version which the clear and simple verse of Dante allows, gives a fuller sense of the poem than can blank verse; for in using blank verse the translator is often forced into awkward inversions and tempted to elaborate displays of rhetoric...
...Harvard Daily Herald, and the Crimson, which had been revived by a faction dissatisfied with the older daily. It was soon evident that there was not a field for two daily papers here, and early in that year they were united under the name of the Herald-Crimson. This awkward name stood for over a year and a half, when a new board of editors relegated all that was mortal of the old Herald to the past and the paper appeared as the Daily Crimson. Under this title the paper has grown prosperous; it has been put upon a strong...
...regretted that Harvard, after all her experience last year, should have deliberately placed herself again in such a false and awkward position...
...centre. On the other side of Janes, Thomas or Symmes will face S. Morison. It is hardly probable that Symmes will be in condition to play, but Thomas will make a good substitute; he is a big, strong man, much the same build as Morison, but he is awkward and not able to use his full strength. It is evident, therefore, that there is not much to choose between the centres of the two teams...
...much system as possible on the first day. They were divided into squads according to the positions for which they are trying, and went through an hour and a half of light work under the supervision of Captain Cumnock and the coaches. The men are all stiff and awkward, naturally, but there seems to be an abundance of good foot ball material among them. Back of the line the eleven promises to be unusually strong. All of the men who played last year in these positions are back and at work, with the exception of Saxe; in addition there...