Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen the passage of two controversial measures important as the World Court adherence and the tax reduction bill, leaves the Republican majority with a sense of serenity and power. It seems somewhat to have affected Republican correspondents also. Theodore G. Joslin of the Boston Transcript writes in cheerful style that "years have passed since the Democrats have experienced so much difficulty in finding an issue...
...News competition will offer the Freshman class its greatest opportunity for the exercise of ingenuity and resourcefulness to be found in extra-curricular activities. Newsgetting in all its divisions affords the candidate experience in interviewing notables in and out of the University, in writing a journalistic style, and in learning the machinery of Harvard, in a manner not to be equalled elsewhere. Each candidate is a reporter, pursuing the same methods employed upon metropolitan dailies. Credit is given for each story written with extra credit for scoops, and a bonus for high scholarship...
...pull the match out of the fire by discarding his hard driving game and attacking Baker's weakness on high, slow lobs to the back hand. The Crimson number one man pulled up to even terms with the champion by this strategy but Baker finally solved this new style of offense and forged again into the lend to win the final game...
...Taylor doesn't like your "freak"and "stunt" expressions. Let me recommend to him a weekly for which I am an honorary subscriber: The Five Points (Pa.) Main Street Review. The present editor has preserved beyond reproach the style of his great-uncle, founder of the Review...
...throngs that cheered them recalled that in 1892, one year before they were married, the death of Albert, Prince of Wales (now commonly referred to as the Duke of Clarence), elevated his younger brother George from the post of Commander of H. M. S. Melampus to the style of heir to the British throne. Descending from their carriage, the Imperial pair entered the State Robing Room of the Houses of Parliament...