Word: ruggedness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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By way of comparison of the two crews Harvard is perhaps physically superior and has the advantage of greater experience. The stroke-oars in both crews have never rowed in a four-mile race. Wallis stroked the winning Yale university four last year, while Cutler was the stroke of last...
The play is distinguished by its extreme simplicity--there are but six characters--and a rugged austerity of motion. It is gaunt and strong. Its weakness lies in its sameness of tone, which produces monotony of effect, in conventional characterization, and an anticlimactic last act. Mr. Knoblauch is fortunate to...
The stereopticon views, over 200 in number, admirably illustrated the scenes of Dr. Grenfell's work. Rugged mountains, lofty cliffs, vast fields of ice and towering icebergs, bore out Dr. Grenfell's statement that the scenery was fully as beautiful with its sunsets and long fjords as the northern coast...
Mr. Peck, in describing his ride up Pike's Peak at night, spoke of the rugged beauty of this mountain, which is over 14,000 feet high. At the top an unusual view may be had of the deep abysses and chaotic masses of rock strata below.
The life of the man of Southern France is a happy medium between the lazy, and therefore melancholy existence of the Spaniard, and the strenuous, rugged life of the Northerner. In this southern society where man is more easy-going and gallant than hardworking, nearly all responsibility falls on woman...