Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lacrosse team will play Cornell at Ithaca this afternoon, and the game, judging by comparative scores, promises to be very close. The following is a list of the players, together with their positions: Sand, goal; Woods, point; Starr, cover point; Scott, first defence; Morrison, second defence; F. Outerbridge, third defence; Horne, centre; S. Outerbridge, third attack; Leighton, second attack; Beecher, first attack; Burley, outside home; Ames, inside home. The team will play the Bostons, Decoration morning, probably on Holmes Field...
...this point a schooner and tug appeared, heading down the course, and passed between '96 and '97, although not causing much loss of time to either boat...
...last minute the missing Lovelace rushes in, and Lithia at once flies to him. But when Kidd shows that the poet has discarded her picture she becomes cold once more, and Kidd is at the point of triumph when Tabitha appears upon the scene, and, at the instigation of Bloodso, discovers at last her husband...
...rather an ambitious effort to put this story into rhyme or even into print, for there is nothing extraordinary in it either in point of conception or treatment. Indeed in regard to the latter, one is amused to find now and then the rhyme lapsing into prose. It is hardly possible to predict that the rhyme will command any special interest from students to whom it must be supposed it is meant to appeal...
...acting, many actors have wondered why they have failed in making speeches, and many orators have been surprised that they have not succeeded on the stage. While many of the attributes are the same, as clear articulation, graceful gesture, impressive manner, and magnetism, they separate at a certain point. The orator must be impressive, the actor impressionable. The orator impresses the audience by what he says, while the actor is most effective in showing how he is impressed by what is said to him. For example, take the famous scene where Othello rebukes Cassio. Cassio makes no reply, but stands...