Word: indistinctness
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...Chadwick's pronunciation was a little indistinct. At first a little cold, he seemed to warm up with his work as he proceeded, and held the attention of the audience well...
...Brown's chief fault was an indistinct pronounciation. He was very energetic but his selection was a little heavy...
...BROWN.Taken by mistake from the shelf near Table 2 in Memorial, a black berby hat (Collins and Fairbanks make) with initials E. S. M. in it, the E somewhat indistinct. Will the person who took it please leave it with the head waiter...
...them all and put nothing in their place to supply the public need. What a red flag is to a bull, the word "elocution" is to an average middle-aged official of more colleges than one. President Eliot's clear, ringing voice is meanly supplemented by the weak and indistinct utterances of a great multitude of his students when heard in public. If public oratory be a need in this republic, public oratory Harvard College must teach; so far as it is the public servant in the higher education, it will teach. - Transcript...
...college, demand more than the passing imprecations of those who buy and have to read them. Their worthlessness should be made a matter of public notice. In what this consists, is clear to all who have had any experience with them, i. e. bad spelling, lack of coherence, and indistinct type so that parts are with difficulty legible. But this subject immediately leads us to a more serious matter, the whole system of buying and selling notes. Few stop to think what an evil this is or to what it might lead; those who carry on this habit...