Search Details

Word: pressingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...event but one. The ha-ha boys had their arms so well trained from writing innumerable jokes that they won the majority of points in the shot-put. The other events in the meet were easy meat for the news gatherers. The Monthly and Advocate tried to bride the press representatives, but in spite of their efforts the Associated Press sleuth-hounds flashed the score over the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson's Prowess Vindicated | 5/26/1908 | See Source »

When Harvard defeated Dartmouth in the track meet last Saturday by only 19 points, while Yale showed unexpected strength in overwhelming Princeton, the daily press leaped into print with prophesies of an easy victory for Yale at the dual meet next Saturday. It was shown how, on paper, Yale already has possession of that nine-year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TRACK MEET. | 5/14/1908 | See Source »

...small commission is undemocratic, he replies that the charter constituting it proceeds from the people and that the renewing of the commission is in the hands of the people by means of election. But there are other guarantees of democracy; the initiative and referendum, the daily and weekly press, and the method of public hearing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT | 4/3/1908 | See Source »

After being for several years the representative of the city press at the State House, Mr. Murphy has been on the Globe staff for the past twelve years and is widely known throughout state political circles as a ready and witty writer and speaker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Democratic Club Smoker at 9 | 3/19/1908 | See Source »

...general editorship of Professor Hart, marks the first very serious attempt to apply the principle of the division of labor to a narrative of the annals of the American people. Despite the elaborate scale on which the undertaking was projected, the whole series has been issued from the press within the comparatively short space of less than four years, an unusual achievement for an enterprise of its kind. Upon the general editor has devolved the task of delimiting the scope of the various numbers and determining the different phases of the subject upon which greater or less stress should...

Author: By W. B. Munro ., | Title: Review of "The American Nation" | 3/17/1908 | See Source »