Word: succinctness
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Dates: during 1875-1875
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...largely due to the fear that the river at New London would not be wide enough to give a straight course to all the contestants in the next regatta. Saratoga's propositions were presented by Mr Ames of the S. R. A. in a much less able and succinct manner, and the Convention went into committee of the whole with closed doors. After a lengthy discussion the committee decided, on the casting vote of the chair, to recommend Saratoga if certain stipulations suggested should be agreed to by responsible parties at Saratoga, secured by bonds of forfeiture with a monetary...
...persons find in collecting their ideas when distracted by the continual and irrelevant chattering of one who stands almost directly at their side. If they have a thorough knowledge of the question before them, very few possess sufficient power of abstraction to give, when thus disturbed, a clear and succinct answer. Some of the details always escape them; and when they are assured that their rank for the year will depend mainly upon these written recitations, they cannot but feel that it is unjust to compel them to write under circumstances so unfavorable for testing their knowledge of the subject...