Word: merest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...means deserted the mountaineer, for Boone Stallard is certainly the more striking and convincing of the two chief figures in the story, although possibly Randolph Marshall is the real hero. There can be no doubt as to the heroine, for only one woman is more than the merest sketch...
...clear at first sight, and it is our duty to be perfectly frank in discussing it. First and foremost the continuance of our intercollegiate contests is at stake, and this alone makes it a matter of the utmost consequence to every student in the University. It is the merest folly to say that the Faculty could not abolish our intercollegiate games, or that they would not take so extreme an action. We might as well put our minds at rest on this subject immediately. The Faculty could most certainly abolish all forms of intercollegiate contests at the beginning of next...
...distinguished from the short, sharp Yale yell. Even the "nine long Harvard's" which used to be so impressive are now cut much too short. The leaders of the cheering seldom try to maintain the old-time cadence, and there is danger that it will be entirely disused. The merest hint should surely be sufficient to check this tendency...
...will now be interesting to see in a general sort of way what has been the outcome of this work. The report is some three hundred pages in length, and of course the merest outline of it can be given...
...Moriturus" is a character sketch of a man who in a brief hour is brought abruptly by the merest accident from a healthy enjoyment of life face to face with death. The sketch has dramatic force...