Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like many another man who has written fiction, Thomas Hardy had first fashioned verses. Done with prose before he was 60, he returned to poetry, but not with the weak dilettantism of a used-up writer who wished to knot up the last frayed edges of his thought. In his verse† he states more succinctly, more bitterly the angry, scornful, rebellion with which he regarded the dismal riddle of existence. The terse wrinkled lines of his poetry are like those of his small face in their expression of quiet pessimism, of a thoughtful, stoic sorrow. His "Epitaph...
After absorbing the thought, as well as those facts which naturally stick in the memory, of "Living Machinery", one is left with a perceptibly broadened vision, and with a greater sense of what scientific research has done, and will continue...
...will be a hard battle for the first place in the event, as we must face Skald from Sweden, who has officially done 180 feet," Farrell prophesied...
...coach then explained that the Americans would probably take the second, third, fourth, and fifth places, as Ide from Penn State has done 162 feet, and Linn and Black have reached the 160 foot mark. "Then of course there is McGrath, who will compete in the Olympics for the fourth time, and has thrown the hammer a distance of 170 feet," Farrell remarked...
...little chance of the Yale track captain's losing his honors. Barnes, who forced Carr to his record with a vault of 13 feet nine inches, ought not to be very far behind the record-holder. The best men Europe can put against us are Dane, who has done 13 feet, and Reed and Lindblad, who cannot even reach that mark...