Word: barren
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...breaking of an oarlock on the Harvard 'Varsity shell during the practice yesterday, and the still-remembered fiasco at Henley two years ago, by which Cornell won a barren victory over Leander, suggest the possibility of similar mishaps during the race at Poughkeepsie. There would be neither glory nor satisfaction in a victory won under such conditions. This note is to suggest that by agreement among those in authority, full power be given the referee to recall the crews at his discretion for a new start if the first start should be marred by any evident misunderstanding (wherever responsibility...
That more than two hundred of his addresses have merited publication is evidence of how fertile was his mind and how ready its adaptation to every phrase of life. No utterance of his was ever barren in thought or rough in form...
...fifteenth in England centurey was barren of literary advance. In Scotland however literature blossomed out freely. The times were less turbulent in Scotland +++ kings happened to be literary men James I, called the Poet-King, early showed the beautiful nature which afterwards wrote itself so finely in his great poem. James was imprisoned when young and while in prison he made a great study of Chaucer and wrote a great deal in imitation of him. His work is full of tenderness and affection and shows his love of nature and his reverence for good. Two humorous poems are ascribed...
...Year's day the Harvard Dental School received a gift of a complete set of surgical instruments for operation in oral surgery, from Mr. C. W. Barren of Boston and Dr. T. M. Dillingham of New York...
...Barren Achievement" is an oddly onceived story of a people in Holland who gave their ideas into the keeping of an old man, and upon his death, were left a "sad, idealess people." The language of the tale is good, but the whole plot strikes us as unnatural...