Word: moves
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Summer of Yale was taken ill after his political economy recitation Monday, and was found conscious but unable to move. The physicians ascribe the trouble to disordered stomach, and do not consider it at all dangerous...
...night in "An Arrant Knave." The play purports to be a mediaeval comedy, but it partakes more of the nature of melodrama than than of comedy, and melodrama of a conventional sort. The second act is real comedy and contains the brightest lines of the play; the other acts move heavily. Except in this second act Mr. Robson is afforded very little opportunity for effective work; it is impossible not to feel that in Chiqui the Knave he has found a part less congenial to him than some others he has assumed. But of course what work...
Slade, No. 6, does not move smoothly; would do better if he had more confidence in himself...
...feeling, and passion of the spirit that reflects it." It is neither real or illusory; it is the embodiment of the inmost being of the artist. For, if the artist cannot feel his own work and infuse into it his own spirit, how can he expect his work to move others? Moreover, each work has its own word to say; it must embody but one idea, and unless this word is spoken, the whole is a failure, no matter how true and clear the details...
Yesterday afternoon the crew tried the tank. It was not at all satisfactory. The oars were horribly clumsy, the volume of water to be moved was too great and the current did not move with any freedom, nor did the rowing offer any resemblance to boating. The clumsiness of the oars was made by cutting a large hole in the blade and tacking upon the remaining portions thick strips of wood. The water going through the hole made the oar feel dead, while the strips of wood on the blades made them very heavy. There was a tendency...