Word: par
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...whole the success of the Weld crews this spring has been unprecedented. While the class races resulted in an unfortunate fiasco, the various crews had previously proved themselves to be very fast, and in the opinion of most coaches quite on a par with the regular class crews of previous years...
...establish peace between science and art, with scientific and artistic arrangement of material. He is endowed with an imagination which raises images, landscapes and people before the eyes of the reader. His histories where he describes events, paints scenes and outlines characters,- for instance, the "Conquete de l'Angleterre par les Normands" and "Recits Merovingiens,"- are very close in style to novels or epic poems...
Lamartine's style is immaterial and leaves to sentiment all of its natural purity. Lamartine is, therefore, for the French the poet, par excellence, and his poetry is the poetry of France par excellence...
...attention has been paid entirely to the new candidates, in order to put them as nearly as possible on a par with the old men, who will be called out directly after the mid-years. Several other players will also come out then if their work permits...
...shell, so it is hard to speak finally of their work, but in the barge they have been improving rapidly under Mr. Lehmann's coaching. They will have to do a lot of work in the next few weeks, however, for heretofore they have been very far below par. Yesterday the order was considerably changed. Biddle went to stroke, Byrd to 6, and Howard took Glidden's place at 4. The order was as follows: Stroke, Biddle; 7, Higginson; 6, Byrd; 5, Heath; 4, Howard; 3, Tilton; 2, Brown; bow, Saltonstall...