Word: striking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...universal problem. The character study "Truth is Stranger" involves definite types and fairly accurate dialect in a story which, true or not, might well have been sacrificed to one more plausible. Nature perhaps, but not art, "looks after her freaks." One doubts, too, whether "Kernham! Wow!" will strike many as congruous with a Maine handy man. A really charming narrative, allegedly autobiographical, in the manner of Rhibany, is Ben Lion Trynin's "Rosalie." The truth here to child life, the healthy human interest--even with comedy overdone--are indeed preferable to the usual run of undergraduate smartness and veneer...
...device is a large padded back-stop about six feet square, cut by a hole at a height which would represent a strike on an average batter. A record is kept every afternoon of the performance of each pitcher...
Without going into the theoretic side of it, the CRIMSON would point out that compulsory training would strike several large practical snags...
...ourselves, we find it quite impossible to fit any of the countries involved satisfactorily into the part of highwaymen or victim. To each country it was represented through the medium of secret diplomacy that the nation "was cornered"; in each country the advice of the military authorities to strike hard and strike first was followed. Anyone who has heard the story of refugees from the war districts will not care to discuss the result. Can Mr. Schenck consistently make the suggestion that to the nation which most explicitly followed the advice of its military men most blame...
...Neither team batted hard, but the Rovers took advantage of nearly all their opportunities to score. They began their scoring in the first inning. Ames was safe on an error, stole second, and came home when the Pilgrim's catcher threw wild to first after missing Gannett's third strike. Gannett took second on the play, went to third on a passed ball, and scored on Frye's bunt...