Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this meet since 1877. The hammer is thrown from a seven foot circle, in which the competitor is restrained to his fair throws. From its inception to 1891 a wooden handle was used. The wire handle, with its double or single grip, proved a great improvement over the old style hammer and really revolutionized the event...
...those connected with Harvard is the fact that the late Miss Amy Lowell's book of poems, "What's O'clock" was judged the most struggle contribution to American poetry during the year 1925. This was her last volume and was done in her most characteristic free verse style...
...your periodical is far above the mental standard of that well known person, "the average American." Your witticisms, your skillful use of the English language, the brilliant literary style of your periodical?which as a news publication will probably attain in years to come as great a renown as Addison's "Spectator"?seem to be sadly misunderstood by a large proportion of your readers. Also, and what is more to be deplored, this attitude on the part of an uncultured list of subscribers seems to have reacted on you to the point of lowering the literary standard...
Authoress Paterson proceeds in logical and conscientious style, preferring individually striking incidents to suspense. None should be deceived by the jacket blurb implying that this is a work of 'pure literature...
...dancing that Miss Marle Saxon has, temporarily at least, usurped that corner of this Senior's mind ostensibly reserved for the Scotch imitators of Chaucer. When she sang, in a pleasingly pretty fashion, we found our inner brain pondering, despite ourselves, on the virtues of Dryden's prose style. When she spoke, in a delightfully mellifluous drawl, we could not entirely forget the family life of Milton, but when she danced--divisionals, oh yes, when does that examination come, and if so, what...