Word: knitted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Clark, right end, is light and plays hard football, but he fails to force his way through closely-knit interference and often allows the runner to go outside of him. His interference is generally good although he often runs high and slowly...
...picture of Hamlet goes, Mr. Tree deserves much praise. He is graceful and well-knit, and he suggests extremely well a melancholy, northern prince. But his presentation of Hamlet is to a very great degree confined to the trappings and outward show...
...finest ever made for any college team in the country, and will consist of blue serge coats with a white monogram on the pocket, A. Y. A.; English cashmere pants with blue stripe on side and waistband; and white sleeveless jerseys with the same monogram, blue flannel knit sweaters with the white monogram, and a new English style of cap with college seal and cording on the front...
...person Booth was singularly good to look at. He was of middle height and more closely knit than most Americans, but his body, though so compact, was grace itself. Every muscle, every feature was under perfect control, and it was this that enabled him to be his best characters rather than to act them. His beauty was of a manly kind and showed the intellect which lay behind it; but his voice was perhaps his chief charm. He was a model for all speakers of English, and he gave Shakespeare's lines with as little effort as if they were...
...experience. His feelings, his "Appreciate comments" on the world are not to reveal to him truth; only his "Descriptions" are to be objective. All that he assumes of the outer world is that it is describable. As such, however, it turns out to be a world of a "well-knit" order; for only the "well-knit" is describable. Hence the world of Realism has "laws" in it; and these laws themselves turn out, when freed from our mere appreciative comments and additions, to be, in the last analysis laws, of "matter and motion." The describability of phenomena in space...