Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interest. Every detail must point towards the centre and must add rather than detract interest. When a good central subject has been chosen the next step is to find the point from which that subject may be most clearly brought forward. It is a good plan to make rough sketches from 10 or even 20 points, then lay them all out, and the most untrained can at once choose the best. The second rule is never to express in a painting more than the eye can take in at one glance. To put in more confuses and crowds the picture...
...table which is appended, the United States is divided into four rough sections which represent the natural divisions of the country. The Northeastern section includes New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; the Southern section, those states south of Pennsylvania and the Ohio river; the Central section is bounded by the Ohio river, Pennsylvania, the Great Lakes and the Mississippi; and the Western section takes in all the states west of the Missippi...
...never be a "clothes loving man," as Carlyle calls the "Dandy;" still you owe it to your friends and to your position in society to conform to the customs of refined society. True economy demands good clothes of quiet colors and patterns, unless you can afford an assortment. The rough cheviots, if composed of two distinct shades, one quite dark and the other light, will nearly always look poorly when the rough surface wears off; the best wearing colors are without contrasting shades. The blue and black cheviots and Oxford mixtures are excellent on the ground of economy, the Oxfords...
...never be a "clothes loving man," as Carlyle calls the "Dandy;" still you own it to your friends and to your position in society to conform to the customs of refined society. True economy demands good clothes of quiet colors and patterns, unless you can afford and assortment. The rough cheviots, if composed of two distinct shades, one quite dark and the other light, will nearly always look poorly when the rough surface wears off; the best wearing colors are without contrasting shades. The blue and black cheviots and Oxford mixtures are excellent on the ground of economy, the Oxfords...
...very much as if ninety-seven would score, as they rushed the ball down the field to within five yards of the sophomores' goal, when the ball was taken away from them for off side play. The men on both teams worked with a will and there was little rough playing. Several times the freshmen made some good plays and showed plainly they only lacked experience to put up the winning game...