Word: gaunt
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Paris, he first attracted general attention in the U. S. in 1907 by erecting the Great God Pan, at that time the largest single bronze casting in the country, on the campus of Columbia University. In 1919 the entire nation became Barnard-conscious when a replica of his great gaunt statue of Abraham Lincoln was erected in Manchester, England, to celebrate a century of British-U. S. peace. In 1925 John Davison Rockefeller Jr. bought for $600,000 The Cloisters, the beautifully arranged collection of Gothic sculpture and woodcarving which Sculptor Barnard had assembled. Mr. Rockefeller presented...
...doctor examined the gaunt old man. He knew something of his story...
Into the learned debate of the Institute for Administrative Officers of Institutions of Higher Learning, held last week at the University of Chicago, came a gaunt pedantic spectre: the Graduate School, by which all prospective teachers must be passed. Formal and informal discussion centred in substance on the thesis: "What can improve Graduate Schools?" Said Professor Frederic Campbell Woodward, Dean of the Faculties and Vice President of the University of Chicago: "There is ample reason to fear that the members of graduate faculties, in large numbers, are still either unaware of the demand [for improvement] or satisfied that nothing sho.uld...
...Married, childless, tall, gaunt, white-haired but young-faced, Col. William Cooper Procter is the man who guides the destinies of Ivory Soap, his company's most famed product. His military title was won in the Ohio National Guard. Later at the Citizens' Military Training Camp at Plattsburg, he became the firm friend of General Leonard Wood, whom he supported for the Presidential nomination. Princeton graduated him in 1883, thanks him for Procter Hall, dining hall of the graduate college. Deeply religious and serious, Col. Procter is no reformer. He drives fearlessly and fast in open cars, goes...
Magnificently gaunt last week was Stokowski's translation of Stravinsky's primitive, pornographic music - music which in its finale is tremendous enough truly to suggest an upheaval of the brutal earth. Lean, sallow Martha Graham did the sacrificial dance in accordance with the spirit of the whole production-jerking, stamping, lunging in the manner which seems to some beholders insane, to others sublime. Many seeing and hearing understood for the first time why the Paris production, put on by the late great Sergei Pavlovitch Diaghilev in 1913, was greeted by a riot, the audience shouting so that...