Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have so long neglected, but which we see now is most urgent. In the fact that a man is an American college graduate is not to be taken as incontestable evidence that he is also an American citizen, then we have little upon which we can come to sure anchor. --Boston Transcript...
...issue of the Advocate, while the verse is for the most part pleasantly negligible, the prose approximates the brilliant. Not without exceptons, to be sure: Mr. Dill's ghost story and Mr. Spark's description of ambulance service at Verdun are, particularly in the former instance, below the average of the rest. Mr. Dill's efforts to create atmosphere are at the same time overdone and stereotyped. His method is cumulative rather than selective, and for that reason he fails to convince. Mr. Sparks, though he is more successful, shows the disposition, frequent in the immature realist, to shock...
...richly done. It is, indeed, a remarkably perceptive piece of work, one which many a well-known professional need not blush to have written. In delicacy of feeling and description it approaches the poetic. There is no waste in it: Mr. Henderson treasures his sentences. The psychology is sure and senitive, and Mr. Henderson resolves his theme in precisely the necessary subdued tone of climax...
...University's chances will be affected greatly by the condition of L. B. Evans '20. If the ankle injured at Camp Devens on Friday is in shape, centre field will be occupied by one of the best outfielders that has played in Cambridge for several years. Evans is sure on a fly ball, has a very accurate, though not over-strong, throwing arm, and is even more effective on the offense...
...French people could not be salved into determination by honeyed words alone. It required straight from the shoulder talk, with logic always in evidence. This French papers have supplied. They have been unsparing in their criticism, they have been at all times independent, but they have always been sure that there was but one course for France--Never Give Up Against Germany...