Word: foreword
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long established world leader, French art, is now meeting face to face with its postwar challenger, the art of America." So said the catalogue foreword to an exhibition of 50 French and 50 American paintings that opened in a Manhattan gallery last week. Culled from some 10,000 entries, the pictures on display were all related in one way or another to Christmas; they had been painted for a $28,000 contest sponsored by the U.S. manufacturer of "Hallmark" cards (TIME, July 4), and many of them would show up on Christmas-card counters eventually...
These words were written by Hamilton Fish '10 on October 21, 1948, in his foreword to "The History of Football at Harvard." Fish, a former captain ('09) of football here, was basking in in the illusion that Arthur Valpey would accomplish miracles overnight...
Bongt Sandberg, who has taken over center forward position on Guyda's foreword wall leads the Crimson in scoring, having tallied his fourth goal against Tufts on Tuesday. However, offense has not been the Crimson's most salient feature...
That was that. But the catalogue of the new gallery contained a one-paragraph foreword written by O'Keeffe which told something more about the Stieglitz approach to art education. The collection had been given to Fisk, she wrote, "with the hope that it may show that there are many ways of seeing and thinking, and possibly, through showing that there are many ways, give someone confidence...
...program's foreword states that "we have turned ourselves into performers today ... to show that our people basically have the same goals as you...we are here to tell you this, though loud and powerful voices which have been raised in our country may have caused you to think otherwise." It continues with a description of America repaying its cultural debt to the rest of the world with "arms and economic plans that cripple your industries"; the foreword conands of translations of the original text have cluded that "like you, we love fun, our people, and our land...