Word: mere
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...busiest and most important part of the season they were neglected and ignored by the very men who, under the same roof, should have been doing their utmost to assist them. As a result, therefore, these men lost interest and gradually dropped off until the club was a mere name...
...public notice. For nearly seventy years at least, and, if the tradition that the bell of 1793 was recast, be true, for over a century, the Old Bell has rung from the belfry of Harvard Hall. Even if considerations of historic value and association go for naught, the mere fact of its long and faithful service should give it some claim upon the sentiment of the University. For the Corporation to sell it for the small sum which the weight of its metal would bring, would be to say the least, a sordid act. But even if the Old Bell...
...results accomplished have not been great, perhaps, yet they have been adequate to furnish the Association with a reason for being. The mere fact that nearly two thousand Harvard men who have left Cambridge and are occupied with the busy activities of life, have already joined the Association is significant as indicating the interest felt by those men in athletics at the University. This interest is by no means confined to the graduates fresh from college...
...veriest tyro. But in the expression of subtle thoughts and emotions and in shades of feeling so delicate we cannot define them in ourselves, the play is indeed the work of a master builder. Swinburne's poetry represents that transitionary stage between articulate ideas and music; where the mere sound of the words carries more weight than their definite meaning. Ibsen's play stands at the other end of the scale, where the subtlety of idea and emotion has passed beyond the range of verbal expression...
...absence of Mr. Blair from the cast was deeply felt. Mr. Pascoe as Solness, however, brought out vividly the conflicting elements of Solness's almost insanely morbid character. Miss Kahn, as Hilda Wangel, was the star of the performance; the mere fact of her having given to Ibsen's impossible heroine so much life and so much reality, is in itself the highest tribute to her acting. Mr. Lewis, as Ragnar Brovik, seemed much more at home than in "Ties," and played his part with greater ease and more convincingness. But the theories of the so-called "natural" school...