Word: resting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sports have heretofore developed a magazine of such beauty and distinction. Such "books-in-parts," as Alkens,* and various art publications about that time and later, were supported by a small percentage of the population in England, known as the aristocracy, lifted on the shoulders of the rest...
President A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard, recently recommended the abolishment of the degree of master of arts at Harvard in a report which also suggested the abolishment of intercollegiate athletics. What Dr. Lowell had to say about athletics overshadowed the rest of the report, but did not lessen the interest of the educational world in regard to the suggested abolishment of the A.M. degree...
...anyone else, that the U. S. would gladly join the Great Powers in any armament slash, however deep. This same position has been taken by Dictator Benito Mussolini for many years. Despite his saber-rattling, the representative of Italy has declared, time after time, that she would join the rest of the world in reducing armaments: "To any common minimum, even the lowest...
...famed U. S. Landscape Painter Arthur B. Davies. Last week, in Congers, N. Y., his widow, Dr. Virginia M. Davies, selected 61 of some 200 uncompleted paintings which had been found in his Manhattan studio, caused them to be burned because she did not consider them "representative." The rest, because they "conveyed his quality," she preserved for future sale. Of some 2,500 drawings and sketches several hundred will be presented in sets of ten or twenty to scattered U. S. museums. Undoubtedly Widow Davies built an expensive bonfire. In Manhattan, last spring, 68 Davies water colors were sold...
Pilots expect what to the rest of the world is the unusual-forest fires, lost parties, calls for ambulance service, mineral deposits, migrating caribou, herded reindeer. In New Brunswick bears might steal a pilot's food. In Hudson Bay a seaplane might be bumped by a white whale...