Word: prowesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...intervened and it was not until 1920 that the next Triangular meet was held. Cornell now took the place of Penn State on the schedule and from that year the meet has been an annual institution. The supremacy of Dartmouth in the beginning first gave way to Ithacan prowess, but the most consistent bid for laurels has been made by the Crimson track men during the past three years. The scores for the nine meets are significant...
However, without disrespect of either woman suffrage or Count Keyserling's opinion of its prowess, the latter's ideas might be said to verify the fact that distance lends enchantment and that the European point of view on this particular phase of American politics is due not only to a lack of understanding but also a lack of sympathy. Merely because an Esthonian philosopher is unable to understand why the majority of American male voters den themselves the Epicurean pleasures of liquors is hardly substantial foundation for branding the United States a matriarchate...
...Method. Author Hurst, desiring to write down a narrative of embryonic genius, was faced with a dilemma. To explicate the later prowess of the boy she writes about, to give to the man's career, after her history of his boyhood has been concluded, the semblance of truth, to make her fiction about his youth appear to be a biographical rather than an invented recountal, she imagines herself writing the book long after David Schuyler has become President of the U. S. It can be supposed that he became President in about 1950, that the book is written perhaps...
...degree-granting U. S. college or university. In addition each had been chosen to go to Oxford, on the money willed for this purpose by famed Diamond-miner Cecil Rhodes, because he had shown himself excellent in all or some of three qualities: a) character, b) scholarship, c) athletic prowess. Here the necessary likenesses ended. But, unless this 32 is unlike any that has gone before it, most of its members will feel and cause a vague dissatisfaction while they are at Oxford and when they leave Oxford they will not have settled the interminable discussion as to whether Rhodes...
...view of the game that was bound to make him a student of the ice sport. Though still an undergraduate, the rotund Hearst man is already the Boston American's hockey expert and as such he "does", besides his Harvard sports, all the professional hockey games in Boston. His prowess as a hockey referee makes him one of the most sought-after of ice officials so that, though still in the cub stage, he has referred some 125 games...