Word: prompting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Except for this purely physical shortcoming, the tone of the chorus is of excellent quality. The intonation, even in treacherous passages, is so accurate as to seem remarkable. The attacks are notably prompt and clear, even by professional standards, and the too-often neglected endings are no less exact than the attacks. The singing of this chorus achieves apparently quite as a matter of course, two of the less easily attainable goals of all choruses, large or small, amateur or professional--smoothness and clearness...
...York state and the country at large are to be congratulated on the prompt and wise execution of the Slater-Welsh law, passed by our far seeing legislators, under the guidance of Governor Whitman. The early fulfillment by Dr. Finley of the promise of the military training commission, created by the Slater bill, that "military training, would become part of a later program outside the schools," is warrant for the future development of a high order of disciplined youth in our state schools. New York...
...photographs be in the hands of the committee by that time. Blanks may be obtained at Leavitt and Peirce's or Notman's, the official photographer for 1917. If the Album is to be a success, every Senior should appear in it, which will only be made possible by prompt action on the part of those men who have not had their pictures taken or filled out the red blanks and sent them...
...engage in war, in organizing the unity and happiness of the nation, in the construction of a better social order than that under which we now live. Harvard University has never failed in patriotism in times of need, and she is to be congratulated upon the prompt response of her undergraduate body in the present crisis. WINSTON CHURCHILL...
...going out to take up this work have a difficult task. Under the most trying conditions they must remain prompt, cheerful and devoted to a work which demands as much patience as it does actual courage...