Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rights of any sovereign state-the right of expropriation. In a printed handout, Ambassador Daniels said he had been summoned by President Cárdenas, whom he found surrounded by resplendent military aides and members of his Cabinet. The Mexican President did not confer with Josephus Daniels but read off a statement which the Ambassador said he thought constituted a diplomatic note. It was flashed to President Roosevelt at Warm Springs. "I am gratified to have thus formally received this important expression of Mexico's deep friendship for my country," read the Ambassador's statement, "I expressed this...
...Klee's methods of drawing has been summed up by Critic Herbert Read as "taking a walk with a line." This is an accurate description not only of his procedure but sometimes of his scale: the expanse of paper or canvas being imagined as a field of any dimension up to, and possibly including, infinity. It is Perambulator Klee's frequent achievement not only to imagine such a field for himself but to open it up somehow to the spectator. One water color in last week's show, Bird, Ph Feeds Ur with the Snake, at first...
...fighting what he called the "Modernist Machine" government of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. He accused the Church of deserting its parent faith by questioning the divinity and resurrection of Christ, toning down essential doctrines ike the Blood Atonement. Result: Dr. Machen and his followers were read out of the Church, founded their own, which they called the Presbyterian Church in America...
...defied its parent body but belonged to no other organized group. And t070-odd congregations throughout the U. S. which had left the big Presbyterian Church to join the rebels, the Collingswood suit was a preview of what might happen to them. Collingswood lost, simply because Vice Chancellor Davis read what law said on the matter, and declared that Presbyterian doctrinal disputes had nothing to do with...
Lexicography. Allen Walker Read, assistant editor of the Dictionary of American English being written at University of Chicago-to compile (on the theory that the real English language is American English) a dictionary of "Briticisms...