Word: type
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Boers to terms, Neville was learning the hardware business in Birmingham and interesting himself in health work. The age of Victoria molded him into a typical Englishman of his time-not a Kipling Englishman, but a Galsworthy Soames Forsyte. Neville Chamberlain's mind was once described as "the type which was considered advanced and enlightened at the close of the last century." He was a competent Lord Mayor of Birmingham (1915-16), but of his efforts as wartime Director of National Service, Lloyd George wrote in his memoirs: "A vein of self-sufficient obstinacy in the new Minister contributed...
Under the leadership of John D. Merrill, who served as editor until his death on January 9, the Bulletin was submitted to a drastic streamlining. A new cover designed by David T. Pottinger '06, associate director of the Harvard University Press, larger type, new head-lines, and more photographs were some of the changes...
...book will contain nearly 2,000 separate pictures, according to Donnell. An attempt has been made to maintain a half-and-half ratio of type and pictures, he said, by shortening articles to the bare essentials and substituting new views and candid shots of the University...
...complete coverage" of pictures, the chairman added, will include the innovations of two full pages of candids in the activities section, action snape of minor as well as major sports, and the largest view section the Album has ever had. Other changes will include a new type of cover with John Harvard's profile stamped on it, and a "spectrotint" frontispiece in three colors...
Probably the common conception of Sibelius as half-man half-fjord is shaped also by the peculiar type of structure of his symphonies. A single movement in any eighteenth or nineteenth-century symphony followed a certain general pattern--the main theme was stated at the outset, in all its length and loveliness, then in succeeding measures was broken down and developed. Sibelius uses an exactly opposite approach. He takes fragments of theme, broken bits of melody, and toys with them for a while. He juggles them from instrument to instrument, combining them in a variety of ways. Gradually they...