Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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He pointed out that, because of stringent economy, our Army has now only 80% of the commissioned officers required for its peace strength; that it had become necessary to issue to enlisted men inferior equipment left over from the War; that the National Guard had grown beyond the limits set...
JOSEPH CONRAD?Ford Madox Ford ?Little, Brown (|2.50). Ford Madox Ford collaborated with Conrad in the writing of Romance, The Inheritors, The Nature of a Crime. In this monograph, which is built up like a house of blocks out of pointed anecdotes, snatches of conversation, brief and vivid scenes...
Joseph Pennell, famed painter, etcher, published* a gasconade, prefaced with a diatribe?Etchers and Etching. Writing it, gall scored his pen; gloom puckered his mouth. In his foreword, he denounces, derides all others who have written about etching. The curator of prints in the British Museum, he is demolished; "poor...
Particular History. After several years of talk, conferences, pamphlets, prayers, most of the Evangelical Churches ratified the idea of a Federal Council and voted to become constituent members. In 1908, the Council began, consisting of about 400 members from the 30 churches. It organized itself into committees and committees within...
The affirmative proposed hazing, in accordance with the Delta Alpha Plan used at Dartmouth, and pointed out that there was class hazing rather than-individual hazing. The negative contended that this would tend toward the old-fashioned forms with their objectionable features, particularly the risk of injury to the men...