Word: tells
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...list posted at some convenient point on the tennis field, and as courts became vacant they should be allotted to players in their order on this list. The superintendent of the courts could note down on another list the time that each was allotted and thus be able to tell, without inspecting each time board, when the allotted hour was over. It would thus be possible for waiting players to secure courts in the exact order of their arrival on the field, and by knowing how many were ahead of them, could use the waiting time to some advantage...
...times tempted to deal with it to excess, even when it is an essential part of the story. His style would gain in masculinity by a greater restraint in the use of adjectives. In "The Ominous Tract"--a somewhat oracular title--Arthur Wilson has a real story to tell, and tells it with genuine effectiveness. Irving Pichel's "The Passing of Prayer" is lighter and slighter, but with indications of considerable comic power. It hovers on the edge of "smartness", and is not quite unified in tone...
...Underwood will relate his experiences of a hunting trip through New Brunswick and will illustrate his lecture with over 80 unusual slides of birds and wild animals, many of them photographed by flash-light. He will give an account of bear trapping and in that connection will tell the remarkable story of a cub, which was brought up as a child by a New Brunswick woman...
...show the conditions under which the playwright works in order to tell his story will be an important feature of Mr. Hersey's lectures. Among various topics which he will discuss are: the structure of plays, comedy, farce, melodrama, musical comedies, the "picture stage," the naturalistic settings, and the acting of Ibsen Pinero, Jones, Bernard Shaw, Barrie, Galsworthy, Augustus Thomas, and Rostand plays. These lectures are free and it is not necessary to procure any tickets. The entrance to the Lecture Hall of the Public Library is on the Boylston street side...
...itself, it becomes more and more evident that it takes more than ordinary advice to keep such men at their work. Everyone of these men will be needed next fall. Everyone of them has been told of his responsibility to the College. There is nothing new that we can tell them. It is up to them...