Word: effective
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...majority of men considerable sleep is essential, just how much, must be learned from individual experience. During exciting periods it may seem a waste of valuable time to sleep, but continued abstinence has its deadening effect. Those who have robbed themselves too long appreciate the line form Wadsworth's sonnet on sleep...
...purpose were as silly a to blame Watteau for lacking the violent passion of a cartoonist like Boardman Robinson. To say that the play is trivial is merely to tell a lie. It is, moreover, to forget that there are such qualities as subtlety and niceness and that their effect may be quite a powerful as that produced by the shouting of a Danton. Barrie may be a greater influence than Brieux...
...Willard, has still the freshness and delicacy of its first nights. What is remarkable in it is typical of the genius of Barrie. It is the power of rising form delicate nothings to real emotions with the break between so manages as to give the greatest effect. The audience is prepared by the first two acts for some clever and dainty trifle in the third, but the audience finds itself very near tears as it watches an act of high beauty and real poetry. The scene between the Professor and his sister at the window of their cottage is nothing...
This morning comes the news that Yale University has met the requirements of the War Department in regard to the Training Units and that the official order establishing units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at that institution will go into effect this mouth. The Yale Battalion, like the Harvard Regiment, is to be disbanded, but the work already done by its members will count toward a commission in the Reserve Corps. In addition the new course, which is to be under the direction of Colonel Danforth, U. S. A., former commander of the Yale Battalion, will count toward...
...left the Vosges, like rounded sand dunes cushioned up with velvety light and dark mosses (really forests). But to the south, standing firmly above the purple cloth like icebergs shone the Alps. My! they looked steep and jagged. The sharp blue shadows on their western slopes emphasized the effect. One mighty group standing aloof to the West--Mont Blanc, perhaps. Ah, there are quantities of worm-eaten fields--my friends, the trenches,--and that town with the canal going through it must be M--. Right beside the capote of my engine, shining through the white silk cloth, a silver snake...