Word: downes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...This must be a pot-boiler," and then we take it up and to our surprise find again fresh, well-balanced work. "Admiral's Light" is no exception. It is a breath, all to short, of down-east air, tingling with the strong, salt flavor of sea-girt downs and long, pebbly beaches; a tantalizing glimpse of gray ocean and pine-clad islands. The story, as a mere story, amounts to little, but why should it? The book does not purport to be more than a few stray chapters from the lives of a few people, isolated almost absolutely...
To those who give a moment's thought to the matter, it is not difficult to understand the attitude of the Faculty upon this question. That body quite rightly reasons that if athletics have come to such a pass that at the termination of a season an athlete must leave...
Mr. Mackaye is not the first who has tried to dramatize this old Greek myth, poetical enough in itself to fascinate all poets. If the success of any drama is its suitability for stage presentation, then "Sappho and Phaon." as has been proved in New York, fails, but so also...
As reconstructed, the telescope enables the observer to do his work wholly indoors. The observatory, instead of containing the telescope, as in the usual arrangement, simply adjoins it, and the rays of the object are reflected up through the open air and carried through a tube in the outer wall...
The instrument is controlled altogether from the observing room, where there are several levers for use in setting the telescope in motion. The following of the object under observation has been accomplished with the aid of an astronomical driving clock, and electricity is to be used for both sets of...