Word: particular
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...violin and orchestra, is written in the modern fashion of full instrumentation, and is very poetical. Had the orchestra supported Mr. Loeffler better the effect of his solo would have been greatly enhanced. But the accompaniment was ragged and frequently off the beat. The snare drummer was the particular offender in the latter respect...
...well as the best equipped building of the kind in the country. The interior finish is almost entirely oak, the hall way and rooms being finished of that work. The instructors' desks of polished oak are all in position and the students' seats are being fast put in. Particular attention has been paid to the heating and ventilation of the building, some new apparatus being made in this direction. The temperature in each room is regulated by dampers worked by compressed air, which in turn are governed by electricity, so that the temperature is controlled automatically and kept constant...
Yesterday's game was a repetition of the Harvard-Princeton game in one particular. As with Harvard, Princeton played very closely with Yale in the first half and the chances slightly favored Yale. But Princeton's superior powers of endurance were shown in the second half at no time during which was the game in doubt...
...frieze. They are probably the work of mere craftsmen. Many, nevertheless, possess great beauty, though they vary much among themselves. It has been suggested that they were kept in stock, but there is no proof of this theory, and the fact that the figures are evidently intended to represent particular persons militates strongly against...
...Street Theatre last evening in the new American comedy "The Senator." The play is a satire on the American habit of always being in a hurry. The play wrights have selected a field hitherto unworked-life at the capitol, and have produced a comedy that is admirable in every particular. Mr. Crane has found in Hannibal Rivers, the senator, a role peculiarly adapted to his talents, and his success in it may safely be said to be greater than in any role he has previously essayed. His reception last night, from the time he first entered the stage until...