Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...requirement that the ball in the case of an onside kick must strike the ground at least 20 yards beyond the line of scrimmage, failing which the members of the team kicking the ball are off-side...
...lectures attractive, but it should be possible to make them so valuable that the student would regard a cut as a misfortune, rather than as a liberation. It need hardly be said that this feeling is not now prevalent among the undergraduates. The chief reason why so many lectures strike the average student as useless is that he finds in his lecture notes little or nothing that is not better stated in books of reference. Often his notes contain serious errors, due to haste or confusion of mind; more often still they omit the most important facts. There...
...outset we must confess that the situation of Mr. Hagedorn's play does not strike us as well conceived for so short a drama. Two men and a woman, wrecked on a remote island, are, indeed, likely before long to realize that two is company; but it takes time to throw off the influence of convention and to see such a situation in its primitive nakedness. What happens in "The World too Small for Three" is plausible enough, if time were given to the characters to arrive at the conclusions on which they act, and to the audience to realize...