Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...size of the German colonies in southern Brazil, it has recently been estimated by impartial investigators that the Teutonic population is between 250,000 and 300,000, on the face of it an ominous figure. But the fact that the colonies have no access to the outside world except by rail-roads controlled by French and English capital goes far towards nullifying the danger. Add to this the fact that the Germans are surrounded by Italian settlements (the total number of Italians in Brazil being about 1,000,000), and the German peril has vanished...
Next to these two Mr. Malcolm Cowley's clever and attractive verses "On Visiting the Revere" form the most striking contribution to the number, while, of the remaining poems, it is perhaps enough to say that, with possibly a single exception, all are worthy of the place they have won in the Advocate. The stories, too, are well written, though slight and immature artistically, as compared with the verse, and depend too exclusively for their effectiveness upon some simple, strong, unshaded contrast, or upon some element of surprise--extravagant or farcical--in the denouement. Except in "A Fool...
...organization must be present at the band practice in Sanders Theatre on Tuesday, April 10, 1917, at 8 P. M. Any bandsman who is not present at the place, hour and date indicated, unless ill or injured, will be summarily dropped from the Band. No excuse will be excepted for absence except illness or injury...
...required by law to be accepted. Pay in the Reserve is the same as that of similar rank in the regular line of the navy for the same length of service. In addition a retainer fee of $12 a year is given to those who volunteer in any except Class 6. To a man who has been confirmed in his rating after three months' active duty, the retainer pay is in accordance with the rating...
...Except for this purely physical shortcoming, the tone of the chorus is of excellent quality. The intonation, even in treacherous passages, is so accurate as to seem remarkable. The attacks are notably prompt and clear, even by professional standards, and the too-often neglected endings are no less exact than the attacks. The singing of this chorus achieves apparently quite as a matter of course, two of the less easily attainable goals of all choruses, large or small, amateur or professional--smoothness and clearness...