Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...described as being "thirty-seven feet long, lap-streak built, heavy, quite low in the water, with no sheer, and with a straight stern. The width was about three feet and a half in the widest part, and tapered gradually towards bow and stern. The boat had plain, flat wooden thole-pins fitted into the gunwale. Her oars were of white ash, and ranged from thirteen feet six inches long in the waist, to twelve feet at bow and stern. The captain's gig of a man-of-war will give a very good idea of her general fittings." Since...
...Germany. That the present is as opportune a time as any for stimulating such an interest, can be seen by any one who has read the daily papers for the past week. Yet so far as accomplishing anything in this direction goes, Mr. Brooks' lectures seem to have fallen flat...
Chamber Concert. Listemann Quartet, Bernhard Listemann, Daniel Kunst, Fritz Listemann, Fritz Giese. Sever 11, 7.45 p.m. Tickets at Sever's. 1, Beethoven. Quartet in C major, Op. 59. No. 3.-2, (a) Tschaikowski. Adagio from second Quartet. (b) Cherobini. Scherzo from Quartet in E flat.-3, A. Ritter. Quartet in C minor...
...Beethoven. Quartet in C major, Op. 59, No. 3. - 2. (a) Tschaikowski. Adagio from second quartet. (b) Cherubini. Scherzo from quartet in E flat. - 3. A. Ritter. Quartet in C minor...
...himself in metre. But he should be chary about giving such a production to the public; for few are true poets, and he may not be of the few. College students more often fail through feebleness of thought rather than of expression. Their sentiments frequently turn out to be flat, and puny copies of what has been much better said. Yet, if we have not the highest forms of inspiration, we can make light and graceful verse from the light and graceful fancies which belong to our time of life. Such writing is the truest expression of our personality...