Word: cumbrous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...communications show this morning, the chief difficulty is to provide for men who may be defeated as candidates at the top of the ticket. The plan proposed of holding the committee elections over a day is not altogether satisfactory. It is, to begin with, rather cumbrous, and in addition it is but a half-way measure, as so many offices would still remain to be filled simultaneously. It is quite conceivable, for instance, that the same individual might be nominated for a marshalship and for a literary office, or as chorister. It is to be hoped that a better solution...
...pointed arch being better adapted for spanning openings where the height of the arch can not be limited by its span. The only means of using a circular arch where the height is to be greater than the span, is by elevating or tilting it. This is a cumbrous construction and belongs to the Romanesque architecture. The circular arch was long retained in covering window openings, and in the arch construction of the triforium...
Dryden's most substantial benefit to literature was in his breaking away from the cumbrous classical expressions and forced metaphors with which the language was being strangled and in giving a strong impulse to the natural forms of expressions. Extravagant and fantastic in youth, his old age shows a clear and simple English, not very imaginative, not finely sentimental, but certainly strong, significant, graceful and forcible...
...simple, but have arranged for the place of the annual race. Some arrangements should be made for the time and place of the other contests and a dual league would best provide for them. There is no reason to believe that a dual league would involve "red tape and cumbrous regulations." On the contrary the spirit of the Harvard committee appear to be opposed to any such state of affairs. If our correspondent believes that "more than half the college would favor no league," he has reached a very different conclusion from ours about college sentiment. We believe that...
...seem a small matter at best, but I see no advantage in a dual league except a trifling assurance that gentlemen ought not need nor ask for. If Yale and Harvard cannot hold games without red tape and cumbrous regulations they ought to "quit." The example of the English universities ought to put us to shame. Every feeling but a desire for good sport and fair play ought to be banished from our athletic fields. Since one conference has resulted in a majestic secret, I repeat, I believe more than half the college would favor no league but a tacit...