Word: technicality
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Writers who have been led by the solidity of the earlier Doric forms to deny their derivation from a wooden technic, overlook the fact that these oldest buildings were by no means constructed wholly of wood, their walls and roof being largely made of clay, a material which required great compactness. Professor Doerpfeld then showed how these ancient, close-built temples, when transferred into stone, became even more solid and heavy; whereas later they assumed slenderer forms and more graceful proportions...
Sanskrit Conference. The Technic of Lexicographical Work. Professor Lanman. 9 Farrar...
Sanskrit Conference. The Technic of Lexicographical Work. Professor Lanman. 9 Farrar...
...that Keats and Shelley might have profited by a study of Pope, because it would have made them feel conscious that exaggeration is always weakness, and would have taught them, as nothing else could, that felicity of expression and compactness of phrase have as absolute a value in the technic, as imagination in the substance of poetry...
...University of Vermont has received a bequest of $50,000 to found a professorship of natural and technic sciences...