Word: dryness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...serious attempt is being made by a group of optimistic seniors at Yale to place the students of that institution on a bone-dry basis. There are many who doubt very much whether the attempt will succeed in the near future, but those who doubt admit that bone-dryness is sure to come within a few years...
...famous men. His thorough schooling abroad had made him already proficient in Latin and Greek, but his son says: 'Agassiz had, however, no natural sympathy for the classics and the scientific trend given to his early studies had intensified a dislike of the subtle analysis, of language and the dryness of grammatical hair-splitting...