Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...music itself is printed in large, clear type on smooth, white paper, and is in every way presented in a convenient and attractive form. The striking feature, of course, of the whole thing is the fact that it is the product of undergraduate work and this is destined to be an important factor in the stand which the book will take in public favor. However, the play as a whole, and especially the music, is intrinsically worth enough to insure a large circulation. It is sate to say that in the repertoire of the whistling public, which is very largely...
...principal officials were: Referee, George B. Morrison, B. A. A.; clerk of course, H. G. Otis, B. A. A.; judge of walking, Eugene Merrill; marshal, A. D. Peck, Jr., B. A. A.; and they with the other minor officials deserve great credit for the smooth way in which everything passed off, there being none of those unpleasant waits which generally characterize athletic sports...
...number of complaints nave reached us relative to the condition of the tennis courts. The dust on them has been fearful, and many of the courts could not even pretend to be smooth. The condition of the league courts has been a little better than that of the others, but even these are far from what they ought to be. There may have been some excuse for the dryness of the courts in the long absence of rain; but after yesterday's shower there should be no reason for not keeping the courts in perfect condition. The association has this...
...signal for great confusion and fright. The weird quality, of which Thayer is such a master, is very prominent in this whole opera, and readily suggests his subject. Like most of his music this Overture cannot be described, as so much music is nowadays, by comparison with a smooth, gliding stream; there are in it several themes separate and distinct...
...degrees of the hypnotic state; this variety, as great as that of persons, makes it all the more fundamental for psychology. Hypnotism is not imagination but the result of imagination; imagination is not an imaginary fact; history is so full of it that we are suspicious of a smooth story. Psychology cares only for the world of men's experiences, whether that is parallel with the physical world or not. Religious history is the record, not of what men have found in the world, but of what they have put into it; only psychology and philosophy are able...