Word: liven
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...editorial comment and miscellaneous matter contained in the issue are fully up to the standard so well maintained by the Illustrated throughout the year. The forty illustrations are fitting and varied, and serve to liven up the issue, making the Senior Number one of the best that has yet appeared and one quite worth while securing...
...Altogether, the Illustrated suffers from over-specialization in photographs and expository articles. Its editors need illustrators, story-writers, verse-makers, whose work may set off articles like those of Dr. Williams and Mr. Parsons; and they ought to realize that pictures of Compressibility Machines, Seismographs, and Boylston Hall cannot liven any magazine which aims to be more spirited than an encyclopaedia...
...feature which served to liven the contest was a double steal by Babson and Wingate in the fourth inning. It was a farcial play, both the Harvard and Colby players showing a lamentable lack of baseball brains. With Babson on third and Wingate on second, a "squeeze" play was in order, but caption Potter, who was at bat, did not hit and Babson was caught off the base. He finally managed to get back safely, but Wingate had taken too great a lead from second, and was trapped between second and third, almost forcing Babson. The play resulted in Babson...