Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than March 7 in order to be considered by the Committee of Award. The essays may not exceed 2,500 words, and should be on some such subject as might be published in one of the leading magazines of the country. It is important that they be of essay style...
...give it a fair hearing. College, if it teaches anything, teaches a young man to judge of things for himself. If then he finds gold in these pages, where all seemed dross before, he is very apt to appreciate and remember. There are certain qualities in its simple beautiful style and plain old English which are very hard to duplicate...
...University squad, which has showed potential power in individual play during the first two games, displayed a finished style of team play against the McGill skaters. The game was fast and a succession of brilliant dashes and tangled mix-ups in front of the respective cages kept the large crowd on their feet...
There "she lived in such style as to eclipse her 'neighbor George' (the King) in St. James's, across the way." There she died in 1744, aged 85, as her physicians attempted to "blister" her, vowing "I won't be blistered...
...taxi-driver, one of the most unpopular plug-uglies that has ever held a world's title, but yet an individual that few people have had the opportunity to feel sorry for. It is true that his face is the face of an assassin, true that his style of fighting is, to say the least, ungracious, but he owns two qualities that have carried him far-great strength, great courage. As he lolled under the fierce moon-fire of the ring-lights, pitifully twisting his enormous body in an attempt to rise, it was clear that his strength...