Word: flawless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...closely contested game played on May 19, a ninth inning rally turned impending defeat into a 4-3 victory for the Princeton nine, at Princeton. The Crimson batters out-hit their opponents, and E. S. Hardell '21 pitched flawless ball for seven innings...
Such a man was Professor Wendell. He always taught most effectively when least conscious or deliberate in his teaching. With his flawless taste in letters, hew was the surest possible guide to his students. Always he pointed them surely and directly to the best. With a gift for whimsical humor to sharpen his judgement, he invariably carried the interest of his students with him where-ever he chose to turn the shafts of his penetrating criticism. Ridicule was his favorite weapon for the banal and he had no mercy for the pious shams, the stuffed dummies that persist...
...author Professor Wendell ahs placed upon the shelves, casually and with too much modesty, two excellent novels, and a book on English composition which has carried his precise knowledge, the guidance of his flawless taste and his inspiriting influence far beyond the walls of Harvard. Whatever he wrote himself bore all the graces of a distinguished literary artist. He leaves Harvard the poorer by a genial personality an unfailing sympathy for the student (too often obscured behind an exterior of mocking shyness), and a fund of knowledge which the college will be long in replacing. Boston Tcaucribt...
...mate, Harte, the former getting two pretty safeties out of four times up and the latter lacing out a homer in the ninth with one on and a clean single in the fourth which was the first hit for his team. The support which the nine gave Mahan was flawless. Both Reed and Abbot made difficult stops which with other fielders might have gone for hits...
...forbidden to Monthly poets for the space of one year. When they apply it to worlds, it is too much. The two stanzas by the new president of the Monthly seem to be worth all the rest of the verse in the number. They are admirable if not flawless in technique, and possess the charm of delicate feeling in melodious lines...