Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...department plans to introduce a new feature this year in the form of full-page drawings. All designs are to be humorous in character except the bookplate. The work of the photograph competition will consist of taking photographs of class teams and other organizations. It is not necessary for candidates to be expert photographers. The copy and registration candidates will have charge of the main makeup of the book, including class lives and membership in athletic and social organizations. The business candidates will gather subscriptions and advertisements and do a small amount of office work...
...offered to men in the University to either organize themselves into one of these units or to enlist singly. The period of service is four years in length, with only three months during that time to be devoted to active duty. Resignations will be accepted by the Navy Department except during the periods of strained foreign relations or actual war. Each unit will be assigned to a boat for patrol duty in the First Naval District during the summer maneuvers, and in case of war will be immediately ordered to report for duty in defending the coast from submarines...
...causons un peu." They then sit down comfortably and continue it for another half-hour. Words cannot describe the perfect Niagaras of conversation, the torrents of talk. And it is all declaimed in an incredible literary jargon which is like nothing in France, or the world, or anywhere except the boards of the Odeon and the Ambigu. The following is a good enough example...
...sight of a submarine and, as was suggested by a Senator in debate, "Shoots at sight," the Germans would have a right under international law to consider it a hostile act and the beginning of formal war on the part of the United States. The immunity from armed attack except on due notice, which the United States justly claims for our merchantmen, holds only if such vessels do not attack nor resist nor flee...
Most attractive, on the whole, among the sonnets I find Mr. Cowley's except "From the Diary of a Restoration Gentleman," which successfully imprisons within fixed form the loose and rambling idiom of Samuel Pepys. Some change of the second line which would avoid the double use in the rhyme position of the word "approach" would leave a sonnet of memorable power, beauty, and satirical point. Although Mr. MacVeagh's "Sonnet" is strongly reminiscent of Mr. E. A. Robinson's poetry, it is interesting and impressive in and for itself. In Mr. Norris's sonnet on the sonnet...