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Word: casuality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...extracts from themes have not only an interest of originality, but they serve better than a concocted model to express the point at issue. This freedom, this off-hand manner, is the book's greatest charm, and one that will attract even the casual reader. As a guide for teachers no work could be more desirable; for it strives to suggest rather than to urge the system it describes. A wide use of this book in preparatory schools ought to result shortly in a much higher standard of writing among Freshmen in general and among those who anticipate English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Freshman English." | 1/18/1902 | See Source »

...book is essentially one for reference, rather than for casual reading. In style it is broken and too full of extracts to be easily or pleasantly followed, a fault which is made worse by the scientific manner of treatment that pervades most of the chapters. The remarks on communal forms of poetry are, however, of considerable interest to the general public and should be of value to every student of verse in its primitive forms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Review. | 11/13/1901 | See Source »

...Sensation of Rickerts" is amusing and well handled, though a bit overdrawn here and there; and "His Dress Suit" is a happy-go-lucky, naturally told incident. As the mistaken identity idea is too threadbare to attract attention, "A Hazardous Expedition" amounts to little except as it contains casual references of interest to college men. The side of undergraduate life which is hinted at does not lend itself easily to the average undergraduate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 3/21/1901 | See Source »

...entire afternoon or evening; they are men who will most frequently drop in between whiles, for a few minutes relaxation before or after settling down to a lot of work, or attending to other interests. The very life of such a club depends up on its convenience for casual and brief visits; and even a distance of a third of a mile might interfere seriously with its usefulness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 2/13/1900 | See Source »

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