Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...vowels, such as u, eu and mute e, and the nasal vowels an, en, in, on and un. These difficulties are not found to so great an extent in the French of the eleventh century. The u sound did exist then and seemed to offer certain difficulties to the Englishman of the day. But the eu, as in coleur, apparently did not exist. In its place, however, are found two other sounds, one something like o, and the other a dipthongal sound not unlike the first two letters of wet. Mute edid exist, but was invariably pronounced. The old French...
...yards the American representatives would all come from Harvard, being chosen from N. W. Bingham, Jr., N. B. Marshall and W. H. Vincent. Although Oxford won the event against Yale and G. Gordon, in 51s, Vincent won the intercollegiate in 50 4/5s. Considering the track, however, the Englishman's performance is rather the better...
...said: The significant word of this century is progress. The first great Englishman to inspire us with the idea of progress was Tennyson. No two generations are alike. Each century shows great change from the preceding...
...Charlton Black delivered a very interesting lecture in Sever Hall last evening on Thomas De Quincey. Mr. Black's remarks in substance were as follows: From 1830 to 1839, Edinburgh was the headquarters of this distinguished Englishman, who was seldom visible to the naked eye but was heard from on many occasions. He was scarcely five feet high, but aristocratic and attractive in appearance, although he was quite careless in regard to his dress...
...regard to the actual rowing itself, the Englishman leans further back, and in finishing his stroke, is quite out of a perpendicular: he also brings his hands up to his chest before finishing his stroke and shooting out again. With us, on the contrary, the man ends his stroke while sitting up almost straight, just a very little out of the perpendicular and with his hands several inches from his chest. No matter how rapidly the English crew is rowing, the stroke must always be pulled through in exactly the same way. In this then, that the English crews...