Word: utters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Woolsey Stryker is to quit the presidency of Hamilton College this year. It is not too soon. Indeed, in his address to the alumni is this city last week he displayed an utter incompetence for his job. What shall be said of a college president who feels that...
...lines, leap high into the air and with a deft gesture of the index finger draw from his cheering section a perfect salvo, sometimes two salvi, of applause. I have seen him handle the Michigan "locomotive," a clumsy oratorio at best, with a deftness of forearm movement and an utter absence of physical effort which transformed it into a veritable octavo volume of sound with deckled edges...
...doubted that austerity in America is a quality rare enough to appear to be "ex machina." But seeing a miracle, to suppose that there must be pullies and cardboard is to be really suspicious and of small soul. A modern scientific mind noticed the utter lack of physical relation between the figures and their backgrounds. He felt a desire to warn the Cardinal, sitting rich in his scarlet and apparently on the very top of a tower, that he was in imminent peril of being blown off like a bird's nest into the village and the hills beneath...
...Neilson '96, and K. G. T. Webster '93, "Chief British Poets of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries"; N. E. Richardson and O. E. Loomis '11, "Boy Scout Movement Applied to the Church"; H. T. Pulsifer '11, "Mothers and Men"; C. W. Stork '03, "Sea and Bay"; R. P. Utter '98, "Everyday Words and Their Uses"; C. G. Washburn '80, "Theodore Roosevelt...
...spirituality was the thing that this most excellent book describes, namely the going abroad of all these young Americans. It was looking far beyond personal interest to that world sympathy which must be the basis of all internationalism as it is of all democracy. It was, of course, utter fearlessness. It was of what Mr. Andrew speaks in his "introduction," the longing to have some share with the people of France in defending the ideals for which, as these feel, America has always stood, and for which France is now making such vast such gallant and such unflinching sacrifice...