Word: earmark
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Dates: during 1917-1917
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...present number is a fairly good example, moreover, of the Monthly's virtues and vices. In the first place, there is none of that timidity before experience that is usually the earmark of the writings of undergraduates. The stories and impressionistic essays have in common, despite these differences in style and way of looking at things, a certain exultation in discovery, in discovery of new aspects of sensation, of new quirks of character, of newly-balanced phrasings. This is, of course, the secret of all good writing; and the prose in this issue of the Monthly is unqualifiedly good writing...