Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Certain exceptions were noted in the Board's recommendation, whereby advisers would not attempt to persuade students to take all the proposed courses, if the material had been covered in secondary schools or in outside work. Elementary languages and English A were excluded from qualified courses in the Humanities...
Even when the heart is once affected it is not certain that there is permanent trouble ahead, White said. Very often there is excellent recovery in the course of days, weeks, months, or years...
...Certain artists can shift from palette to lithographer's stone without varying either the quality or the type of work which they usually produce. Take Matisse, for example. His art is primarily decorative and is intended to soothe and placate rather than incite the spectator. Matisse relies mainly upon the sensitivity of his line and the balanced harmony of his color to attain this end; but strangely enough, when he leaves the field of color and portrays a subject through the print medium, his result is the same, namely a rather abstract picture which is neither more nor less than...
...emasculated when compared to his painting. Now these distinctions which I have made are in no way intended to be an index by which the artistic value of a lithograph or an etching can be judged; my only purpose is to show that because of the nature of certain artists' styles, and because of the differences which exist between using color and using only various values of black and white, quite often an artist cannot fully express himself with equal facility in both ways. Matisse can because his manipulation of line happens to be effective, whether it be clothed...
Afterwards, Ulen expressed himself as being rather disappointed at the sudden and unexpected turn of events but felt certain that the same foursome could carry off the record in another attempt later in the year. The boys were a bit peeved at first but tried to pass the master off as a good joke. Cutler commented: "Well that certainly is the first time anything like that ever happened to me in a race...