Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author has been extremely apt in his choice of similes and metaphors to clarify the technical language of physics which necessarily permeate such a volume. The ordinary reader, therefore, begins to see the glimmer of the movements of mentality traced by Professor White-head from the seventeenth century to the present time, even though be falls to follow much of the reasoning that lies beneath unfamiliar terminology. And although it requires a deep study, despite the fact that the work is for beginners, to to grasp the full meaning, nevertheless the treatment of scientific ideas in scientific terms is more...
...Summary of Seventeenth Century English Literature", Professor Murdock, Sever...
...some strange coincidence, however, the chosen day was one which history had marred by tragedy. Exactly two years before, the seventeenth of December, the United States submarine S-4, while conducting a series of marine tests, met with the fatal accident which sent her like a plumb-line to the bottom. Four days later all forty members of a heroic crew were dead...
...course furnished the basic design for the plan, but that does not seem to me to be basis for adverse criticism. The use of an octangular tower crowned with a dome is one of the main features of a great deal of architecture, even as early as the seventeenth century," was his comment...
...Whiting, at the harpsichord, will be assisted by George Barrere, flute; Mariana Lowell, violin; and Genevieve Hughel, violoncello. They will be heard in the following program of seventeenth and eighteenth century music: 1. Golden Sonata, F major Purcell Flute, Violin, Violoncello, and Harpsichord 2. Prelude and Invention, C major Bach Polonaise, G minor Bach Air and Variations, E major Handel Alla Turca Harpsichord Mozart 3. Airs and Dances Flute Gluck 4. Sonata, G major Violoncello Locatelli 5. Concerts Royaux Couperin and Rameau and Harpsi- Flute, Violin, Violoncello, chord...