Word: compactness
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...story entitled "My Compact with the Dead" by A. M. Cummings, appeared in Saturday's Record...
...Baker in a short narrative, gives evidence of weakness in handling, but on the whole tells the story of the compact between Robespierre and Barere clearly and with some enthusiasm. The editorials contain an exegisis of pessimism, which has a slightly familiar sound. Mr. Clymer contributes a concise review of Dr. Gummere's "Handbook...
...examination is to consist of a summary of the matter contained in these six themes, so arranged and condensed as to present the topic in hand in a compact and intelligible form...
...incidents is such that we are bewildered as by a rumbling and unintelligible noise. In the great tragedies, except Lear, this element, although constantly appearing as a living background for the principal figures, is kept distinctly subordinate: Othello is almost classic in its unity and continuity; Macbeth, although less compact, still turns on a single event; while Hamlet draws its variety and intricacy from the character of the hero, and not from any great admixture of foreign matter. But in King Lear we have two distinct plots and a large number of indispensable personages. It is noticeable, however, that there...
Webster. Oration, entitled The First Settlement of New England, or an equivalent amount in the speeches,-Plymouth, Bunker Hill, Adams and Jefferson, Knapp Trial, Dartmouth College, Seventh of March (1850) Constitution a Compact, Hayne, Removal of the Deposits, Extension of Capital, Girard College, Ogden vs. Sanders...