Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plan of having weekly drills in the manipulation of a man-of-war (beginning next Monday), should appeal to a great many men. There is nothing more fascinating or intense in the whole vivid game of war than the life of a great battleship. The drill offered does not take a large amount of time, but should be concentrated enough to offer a good basis of training in the necessities of a naval officer's education...
...fortune in possessing such a site as the Stadium for the presentation of an outdoor spectacle should assure it of all possible success. The pageant will serve to arouse the people of the city to an appreciation of the meaning of the city's past by bringing before them vivid selected sketches, and it will furthermore increase community spirit. Although the cost or the pageant will be covered by the money realized from the sale of tickets, it will be necessary to raise at least $15,000 to cover the preliminary expenses. All amounts pledged in support of the affair...
...Captain Dadmun and his men will struggle to wrest victory from the sullen bulldog, while in the stands the cohorts of the Crimson will cheer their efforts. At home in Cambridge supporters no less loyal will fervently beseech the gods for a Harvard victory. The sun has set in vivid crimson now for four successive years. May it be long before the cold blue shadows obscure our vision of victory...
...most part at the front with no thought of future publication; and consequently conveying the freshest kind of pictures. The book carries with it, from Europe, boom of guns, the whirring of aeroplane motors and the signs of dying men-the whole set down in the vivid and picturesque words of young men who have seen great things...
...Andrews 1G., the judges' second choice, deals with the problems that affianced couples face today. The two engaged couples in the play sensibly decide that they are not suited for married life and separate. The tone of the play is light and cheerful but not frivolous. A vivid tense incident in New England life is portrayed in the play third in the judges' estimate, "The Rescue," by Rita C. Smith. It pictures the culminating horrors of a girl who inherited madness from her mother. The play of J. W. D. Seymour '17, "Trespass," is the only one to be offered...