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Word: excelled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...quality of voice, correct pronunciation, clear enunciation, ease and appropriateness of gesture, and directness, variety, and emphasis in delivery. Without attempting to assign exact valuation to these various elements, the Association is agreed that as between the two, matter is more important than form; and that should one team excel in matter, and the other to an equal degree in form, the award should go to the former...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUDGES' DEBATING RULES. | 12/11/1899 | See Source »

HARVARD CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.- Subject of the meeting tonight is: "Bless the Lord, all ye that excel in strength." The devotional meeting will be followed by the election of officers for the next half year. Members are urged to attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice. | 1/12/1898 | See Source »

...there is something beyond the scores to be considered. In the first halves of the Princeton game and the Pennsylvania game, the eleven played a game which none of the other college teams with better records could excel. But in both games Harvard was beaten fairly. The reason, which all agree, was that Harvard players had not the physical endurance of their opponents. In both the Princeton and Pennsylvania games man after man was injured and the whole team fell off in its play in the second half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/24/1896 | See Source »

Professor Norton last night addressed the members of the Camera Club and contributors to the exhibition. He spoke briefly of the qualities which a photograph should have to excel artistically, and besides artistic merit, of the poetic feeling which should enter into the composition of such a photograph. He commended the practice of photography as cultivating the artistic sense, although it be not so disciplinary to hand and eye as the art of drawing. After pointing out various individual defects and merits, he complimented the contributors upon the general nature of the work exhibited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Camera Club. | 3/10/1896 | See Source »

...relationships of our species to those of more favored climates were presented by the lecturer, and a comparison was drawn between our attractive spring flowers and the flowers in the tropics. The comparison left no doubt that in point of attractive coloring, the flowers of temperate regions far excel those of the equatorial belt. The gorgeous highly-colored orchids of the tropics are comparatively rare, and the most brilliant are in secluded nooks or cling as epiphytes to the higher branches of the loftiest trees, well out of sight. And lastly, there is nothing in the tropics which can compare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Goodale's Lecture. | 4/4/1895 | See Source »

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