Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...After the second inning Croeliuspitched a steady game, allowing but three hits in the first eight innings. He was equally strong at the bat, making three singles and a three bagger out of five times at bat. His three base hit with the bases full was in marked contrast to Paine's strike out in a similar situation...
...form a not unfitting background to the life of today. In the Italian villa we find brought into subjection the main ideas and features of its Roman predecessor. On the borders of Lake Como we find the best examples of these houses. Here the blue waters of the lake contrast strongly with the pure white country houses with which the lake is bordered. Art and nature seem to have combined to make a paradise. During the Renaissance the art of building was continually changing, largely owing to the work of the Italian architect, Palladio. His buildings with their stately proportions...
...three years before the death of Charles, Sir Thomas Browne departed this life. The speaker made this association of the chief chief circumstances of Browne's life with the chief dates of contemporaneous history in order to underline the fact of an uncommonly retired and peaceful existence by contrast with the troubled course of public affairs...
...library, presented by President Low, will be the central figure of the group. It will be built entirely of stone and will make a most conspicuous object on account of its height. The laboratories and lecture halls will be constructed of brick and will contrast favorably with the library...
...immensely to the effect of Mr. Barrie's best book. "Ian Maclaren" does not force the pathetic note, but he repeats it too often perhaps within the compass of one volume; and "Beside the Bonny Briar Bush" would have added to its indubitably strong effect with a more frequent contrast of the comic and some such centering principle as that of "A Window in Thrums." Maclaren's pathos on the other hand is indescribably quick, poignant, and as the French say-saisissant. And if all his two volumes were on the same level with "Doninie," "Drumsheugh's Love Story...