Word: outset
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...humorist divided his address into three parts, concerning himself with the literature of the Victorian Age, of the late 19th century, and with modern literature, and described the hero, heroine and general plot which characterized each. In the Victorian period, we knew at the outset of the book that the hero and heroine would be married, and we were satisfied, for that's what we wanted. And when the novel ended with the sweet wedding bells, we were glad we read...
...only the more hopeless reactionary element of the Bourbons and Tories who regard the President's peace proposals as a sort of half-way house to Bolshevism. Having more brains than the Bourbons and Tories, the real Bolsheviki have perceived from the outset that their real enemy was Wilsonism. That is why they unhesitatingly chose German autocracy as an ally and why they have resisted the President's program as bitterly as Junkertum itself...
...outset the Hockey Club took the lead on two well-shot goals by Hutchinson, a former B. A. A. player. T. M. Avery '21 had succeeded, however, in penetrating the opponents' defense, and the score stood 2 to 1 against the University at the end of the first half. During the second period Avery scored two more goals, and the game ended with the University leading...
...outset of the game the sailors seemed decidedly superior to the Marines. With the ball on their 27-yard line after a long punt by Mahan, a pretty forward pass from W. J. Murray '18 to E. L. Casey '19 netted 40 yards, and this with line plunges by Lowney of Colby, T. H. Enwright '18 and Casey, and an eight-yard forward pass, left the ball on the Marines' two-yard line, where the sailors lost it on downs. After Enwright had run back Mahan's punt 27 yards, the second attack ended in a try at a goal...
...Elizabethan May-Day is cleverly contrived, with its pleasant descriptions and its snatches of old songs. Some of the reflections in the earlier part have a modern sound, and are not altogether of a piece with the rest. But we are doubtless to understand that the speaker at the outset is Robert Hillyer, who is only gradually merged, in the course of the vision, into William Shakespere...