Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Verbal applications and applications not on Departmental forms will not be considered...
...Verbal applications and applications not on Departmental forms will not be considered...
...calling for thought and practice, but an affair of conscience as well. Translating teaches us as nothing else can, not only that there is a best way, but that it is the only way. Those who have tried it know too well how easy it is to grasp the verbal meaning of a sentence or of a verse. That is the bird in the hand. The real meaning, the soul of it, that which makes it literature and not jargon, that is the bird in the bush which tantalizes and stimulates with the vanishing glimpses we catch...
...important help is a collection of maps, photographs and diagrams. The United States Coast Survey has made careful engravings of almost all parts of the American coast, and illustrations taken from these maps give a much better idea of the subject than can be gained from a very careful verbal explanation. The Scottish Geographical Magazine also contains very good maps which, mounted on cardboard make a very useful collection. Photographs, when they can be had, are an admirable means of illustration, for they add just what maps and diagrams fail to show, that is, a correct view of the thing...
There are twenty-eight athletic rules. The first states who the officials of the games shall be and that they shall be appointed by the U. T. A. C. committee. The next nine rules define the duties of these officials with extreme care. The eleventh rule provides that verbal protests may be made at or before a meeting by a member of either...