Word: efforts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with a deft gesture of the index finger draw from his cheering section a perfect salvo, sometimes two salvi, of applause. I have seen him handle the Michigan "locomotive," a clumsy oratorio at best, with a deftness of forearm movement and an utter absence of physical effort which transformed it into a veritable octavo volume of sound with deckled edges...
This more than ever shows how important it is that universities make an effort fully to incorporate into the American college life the foreign students within their gates...
...further, to offer our urgent petition that the representations of the United States shall be defined in terms of an official protest; that our government make very effort to secure the cooperation of other neutrals in making the protest...
...poetic feeling and divination of the Wordsworthian school with a tinge of Platonism. If poetry nowadays were only compatible with clearness! The verse libre of A. Kline Sp might have changed forms with "Succor," since "Sunday Chapel" is no less prosaic than Harding Scholle '17's less self-conscious effort toward oddity in form. With more earnest expression of sincere feeling this must even be a vain plea addressed to writers who nervously fret to be "different"--in vain, as long as Pegasus, instead of trying to get somewhere, fantastically pirouettes...
...Register was marred by many errors which were due to the desire of the editors to get the book off the press too early in the fall. A great effort has been made this year to eliminate all mistakes in the make-up of the volume...