Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In spite of certain good qualities in his style and his accurate portrayal of a social order, Mr. Young on the other hand can be accused of tiring the reader at many times during the book with repetition of scenes which add little to the final affect and make what...
Mr. Weston is a member of the psycho-analytical school of writers, a charter member we should say. His technique springs full-armed from the fulminations of Freud. It is a sort of detective mechanism for discovering the well-springs of character. It is deft in the same way that...
Superficially, at least, the games are quite different. True, the same kind of ball is used, but the men play in track suits and not in padded armor plate! Furthermore the total playing time is considerably longer, and the time out is very much less--a boon to the spectators...
Play starts from a kickoff, much as in our game. Tackling is the same, but more often on frozen ground, and as noted previously, there is no padding to break the fall. After the ball is down, eight men of each side lock arms, in a close formation or "pack...
Carnegie report enthusiasts may feel that the Western Union is out of touch with the best athletic thought of the time, since a cursory glance at the ten pep messages reveals at least eight of them as playing too great an emphasis on winning. In fact the compilers of the...