Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...written about what is wrong with the modern novel, but "The Dark Chamber" exhibits two of its greatest defects. The irrepressible desire to wallow in the morbidities of sex is one. The other is the continual effort to attain a "precious" style. Cline's efforts run to the use of esoteric words and a "lyric" prose...
Work has just been started on grading a parking space for 150 cars south of the Business School buildings, in addition to the accomodations for 175 cars at present in use. Flood lights will be provided to aid in night parking, and watchmen will patrol the parking space day and night...
...private life of the once great men. Mr. Thaddeus adds a certain vindictiveness that is not to be found in most authors. That the attempt to blacken the name of Rome is more or less intentional is shown clearly by the preface, and throughout the work there is a use of invective that would have shamed even Cicero in his bitterest mood...
...cites his facts, such as they are, for so thinking, and dismisses all contrary evidence as not to be taken seriously. Mr. Thaddeus, even more than most of his colleagues, is possessed of an eye for the dramatic, and his style is rendered most vigorous by the frequent use of the present tense and very short sentences much after Caesar's own "I came, I saw, I conquered...
...tunnels connecting the buildings were begun last spring, and have been completed for some time. With the completion of the piping the plant will be ready for use...