Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Roome '07, fullback and halfback, is slow on the offense. His defensive game is in marked contrast with his offense and is very good...
...often lost the beat of the stroke, as he showed a tendency to shorten the stroke at the catch. These faults were probably due in a large degree to the changes in the crew; but the work of Emmons at 7 and Swaim at 6 was in decided contrast to the poor showing of the other men. The clean form of Swaim was especially creditable as he had been rowing on the starboard side in the Junior boat...
...sharp contrast with the mountains of Colorado are her vast prairies and farms. The observation of the traveller is directed to the unlimited possibilities of these great areas, harvested by the most scientific mechanical appliances...
...Hall, D. D., h.97, president of the Union Theological Seminary of New York, gave the fourth William Belden Noble lecture, on "Temperamental Contrast between East and West," yesterday evening in the Fogg Lecture Room...
...illusions, its dangers, and the solid foundations of its happiness and success. The action presents four couples, three of which are decidedly ill-mated and Pickwickian, and consequently are drawn into all sorts of entanglements and paradoxical complications, while the courtship of the fourth forms an agreeable and pleasing contrast by the good sense, independent thought and true feeling which make the friendship of this pair finally mature into love. The plot is simple and perspicuous and does not require a detailed analysis, but it is handled in a witty and clever manner, and there is not a dull line...