Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...published in 255 years. Although Charles Cotton's translation of 1670 has been changed greatly in its subsequent editions, it has still remained unsatisfactory for modern use. With the publication of Mr. Ives' new work, there will at last be adequate and up-to-date interpretation of both the style and content of Montaigne...
...Author Newton turned out to be a bookworm of astonishing capacity and superlative digestion, with a most charming literary style of his own to impart the gusto of his protracted feasts. He fell not only to voracious reading, but also to the deeper vice of collecting books for the rarity and beauty of their colophons, the nicety of their printing and margins, the occasions and associations of their appearance in book history, the inscriptions and old bookplates to be discovered in them and the lively diversion of nosing out rare editions in the bookstalls of two continents and a pair...
...first team opened up the scrimmage in fine style, breaking their way through the Seconds in five plays for the first touchdown. Saltonstall recovered a fumble on the second play from the kick off and gave the red shirts the ball on their opponents 15 yard line. Cheek took the ball inside the tackle and made a very pretty run of 15 yards across the goal line. With no drop kicker in the lineup, Cheek kicked from placement and made the goal...
...student who is willing to sit through a year of professorial vaudeville may emerge from this trial by fire with a valuable residue of knowledge. For more than 30 weeks he must submit to being talked at by ten or more professors, to adjusting himself weekly to a new style of delivery, and to winnowing his over crowded note-book for the handful of good grains...
...great possibilities which are only partially realized. Whereas the courses which are considered less advanced and taken perfunctorily by students in atonement for past "D's" or in anticipation of future "O's", English 31 is generally undertaken by students who have a serious desire to improve their literary style. Work on daily themes, occasional long compositions, and a novel, provide excellent opportunity for literary experimentation. But one cannot help feeling that Professor Hurbut would be a better guide to his students if he lived less in the literary past. While it is greatly to his credit that he should...