Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exposed page of a blue-book he read "The significant thing in the work of Blogdenthorp is that he represents his period both in style and material." At once he recognized the English 99 1-2 formula, and knew that his intuition had been right. Beckoning his comrades to him, he seized upon the writer of the betraying words. Great was the surprise when he found it was not a human being but a mechanical man, a perfected robot. The head came off in his hands. Examining it closely, he found it contained a replaceable cylinder on which was written...
...from June 1, 1928 to the date of the examination, and the type of examination will be similar to those of previous years. Tentative arrangements provide sets of true-false questions and identity questions to be answered in one hour, and a group of short summaries in "editorial style" not exceeding some 250 words each on eight or ten questions to be selected from a designated list and to be written in two hours. The latter arrangement is intended to replace the "essay topics" that have formed part of previous examinations...
...mean that only Harvard theory and practice are to be taught, for the courses will be tempered by the assistance of men from other universities. Such a plan provides for tuition that is both competent and well-rounded, and presumably the student-coaches will be allowed to choose the style of play most popular in their particular locality...
...this in view when he guessed that the erection of new units along the river front will bring a shift in the center of Harvard population, and suggested the location of the new chapel in accordance with this trend. Further, the correlative elimination of the difficulties of reconciling any style of architecture with the surroundings in which a substitute for Appleton Chapel would find itself clearly supports his argument...
...sounds, and the great snake rises, and spreads its hood, and leans and hearkens, swaying in ecstasy; and even so the Lord Chancellor, in the midst of some great sentence, some high intellectual confection, seems to hold his breath in a rich beatitude, fascinated by the deliciousness of sheer style...