Word: styles
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...well their general style ye knowe here...
...INTERVIEWS ON THE HARE AND HOUNDS CHASE."Your reporter first called on Prof. Epol Rabnud (the Dhin), who, in his usual chipper style, said: 'You see, sir, it is a most unexampled case of profit and loss. If you win, you receive an H. A. A. cup! And when you lose all, you only lose a scent!' At this juncture the learned gentleman fell asleep, and your interviewer was obliged to withdraw...
...practice at lawn tennis will not raise American physique, now so much decried, up to the English standard. But before criticising any further the expression "brutal," we must remember that Yale was one of the contestants in the game mentioned; and if that team played in its usual style, the expression is perhaps allowable...
...Winship and others; but from thirty to fifty machines intended to develop the different parts of the body, in order that no one man may take possession of a machine and monopolize it, as was too frequently the case in the past. There will be a new style of adjustable pulling weight. In principle it is the same as the old pulling weight, but in the details of construction it is vastly superior. Wooden pulleys on steel shafts have been substituted for the old iron pulleys, and the cowhide has been replaced by Manila rope. The weights are placed...
SUBJECTS for next theme in Eng. 5 are: "Style of Junius compared with that of Swift in the Examiner," and "Poetry as distinguished from Prose...