Word: protractedness
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It is well recognized that the present method of selecting managers is unsatisfactory. Generally speaking, a good manager must combine three qualities: executive ability, cheerfulness in doing protracted and often disagreeable work, and that indefinable faculty of getting on with the members of the team called "personality." There would appear...
Aside from the unnecessary strain upon energy which would result from a protracted parade, there is always the danger of attaching undesirable recruits. The rougher element are unable to draw fine distinctions between College demonstrations and others prompted by less praiseworthy motives. They will welcome the opportunity to commit acts...
Athletic Association of Harvard Graduates, James J. Storrow, Esq., President: Dear Sir,--The Committee appointed by your body to consider the present game of football has collected a great number of oral and written opinions and suggestions from expert players and those interested in the game; has held many protracted...
The poem was written to disprove the popular theory that protracted scientific study renders the mind unfit for purely literary work. It is in effect five brief plays in which are reflected the large mind and daring spirit of the days of Hawkins, Raleigh, and Drake.
The competition for Campbell's old place at left end has been very keen and has been settled only during the last week. There were a number of good men for the position, and all of them--Jones, Clark, Burgess, Randall and Motley--were given trials. At last Mills, who...