Word: singularly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...which the old monarchical government inflicted the death penalty. The invention of the guillotine, which in some analogous form had already been used in Germany and in Scotland, happened to coincide with the outbreak of the Revolution, and was not a consequence of that movement. But it was certainly singular that the invention should have taken place at that particular time, since it enabled executions to be conducted with a rapidity and a certainty which would have been impossible with the means formerly at the disposal...
...view of recent editorials on the subject of Commencement changes, permit me to call attention to a singular error made in a communication on the subject and overlooked in the editorials in question. The communication referred to found two objections to the plan suggested by the Committee of Alumni. The more important of these was based on the fact that the Committee's plan provided for a baseball game with Yale on the Tuesday prior to Commencement, and on that day, Commencement Day at Yale, our ball team was expected to play at New Haven. As a matter of fact...
...victor. The Harvard eleven had many more chances, to score than the ordinary game usually affords, and had the team possessed the spirit of their opponents, not only would these opportunities have been taken advantage of, but more of them would have been forthcoming. But there was singular lack of team play and aggressiveness, and in critical situations, there was the same stage-fright or over-supply of confidence which has prevented so many touchdowns in previous games. Fumbling, holding, offside play and inexcusable failure to gain ended in a score of but eleven points against opponents who should have...
These addresses already hold a place of their own in the literature of the University, and seem bound to be valued more and more. They reflect in a singular way the personality of the man who has given them to us. They seem like concrete phrases from the vaguer atmosphere of Harvard tradition. They are filled with the earnestness that gives conviction, and with a simple artlessness more inspiring than the highest...
...singular boldness, of his work was not understood by all was qualified as strange and extravagant, but his poems have triumphed over the attacks upon them. If everyone does not consider them as masterpieces, they are at least conceded to have been written by one of the most interesting and ingenuous spirits of these days...