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Word: great (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arlington bus, glad to be rid of the students rudely elbowing their way through the crowded safety zone. In the Yard, the snow will fall, eventually to melt away undisturbed by the usual hands of the students scooping up the flakes and pounding them into snowballs. Passengers in the great airliners flying over Cambridge will still look down and say, "See all those brick buildings by the river there, that's Harvard." But Harvard really won't be there any more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...exhibit are pages from the "Gutenberg Bible," the first great production in printing, of which there are only a few copies in existence in the entire world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rare Collection Of Fine Printing Shown in Widener | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...Despite the fact that his style is one the foundation of which rests in a mental concept of his subject, his feeling for shape and his comprehensive power of suggesting texture and quality, serve to strengthen and support my belief in his capacity for influencing the senses. Like most great painters, Cezanne succeeds in striking a just balance between the sense and the intellect...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...situation is even more complicated." he declared, "by the extreme disagreement between Japan's foreign policy and ours. They talk of a new order in East Asia, an order dominated by Japan and subordinating all the great western powers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Warns U.S. Not to Overlook Crisis in Its Far Eastern Relationships | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...were thing worth getting up at six o'clock in the morning to go down and see! But now--well, Christmas is losing all its glamor. A tour of the toy departments of the department stores shows that you've not been standing still. Yours toys have been making great progress. Today's youngsters have it swell. Vag felt very lonesome the other day as the peered with amazement at some of the toys ticketed for lucky kids on the 25th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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