Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These two brief quotations serve sufficiently to show the spirit and the style of the work. Not the least reason why this type of history gains such a large number of readers is its lucid, clean-cut style certainly easier reading than the classically ponderous works of the older school Gibbons and Mommsen for example. Here no foot-notes are to be found, no weighing of questionable points. The author asserts dogmatically that Caesar is a scoundrel, he cites his facts, such as they are, for so thinking, and dismisses all contrary evidence as not to be taken seriously...
Maine was the only New England state to escape. The milk supply of Boston and all westward mail and freight service were almost entirely cut off. Damage rode on the raging Connecticut River down through Springfield, Mass., and Hartford, Conn. Oil tanks and wharves collapsed. Sewers backed up. Typhoid threatened. Tens of thousands were homeless. A fall of snow increased their misery. The total damage for New England was estimated at $50,000,000. More than 150 died...
...grown into babbitts or clowns or bigwigs, sang their geography, etched Spencerian parabolas into their copy books, played "duck on a rock" at recess, spelled out the stories in McGuffey's; then they walked home on dusty roads, swinging their book straps and talking to each other, stopping to cut their initials into fence rails or the bark of a tree. The songs they sang, the books they read, the things they learned made them make the U. S. into whatever...
...seconds punted from their own 20-yard line in the last quarter. Guill took the hall on the run, and cut and dodged to the winning score...
...less interesting lectures but also those which come on Saturday and Monday mornings are liable to extreme neglect. The modifications, however, which are being made in the lecture system at Harvard must necessarily make some change in the point of view of both undergraduate and dean. Where lectures are cut short six weeks, the undergraduate is more likely to learn all he can through lectures before being thrown on the more difficult, if more scholarly, road of his own resources during a reading period. And where a student's work is not confined to lectures but embraces tutorial work, absence...