Word: affluently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement that the Fogg Museum is to receive an art collection which includes portraits by such old masters as Rembrandt, Hals, Murillo, and El Greco is most welcome. Usually, when rare items are offered at public auction the large metropolitan museums are able to outbid their less affluent collegiate competitors, so Harvard is to be considered fortunate in gaining so fine a legacy, which otherwise might never have found its way to Cambridge. The true significance of the gift lies not alone in the intrinsic value of the objects themselves, but in the mode of presentation. The will stipulates that...
...Health regained, Harry Fosdick finished his last year at Union while serving as an assistant at Madison Avenue Baptist Church to Pastor George C. Lorimer (father of Editor George Horace Lorimer of Saturday Evening Post). Then, married, he took up his first pastorate in Montclair, N. J., prosperous-to-affluent suburb, which would have no youth but the ablest. For eleven years the man and his fame developed slowly, irre- sistibly. The man grew by meeting real issues. He flayed cardplaying (bridge). He was alarmed by this new thing called movies, He flayed parents who let "boys 12 years...
...credo says that rich school children are inclined to be lazy, impertinent to their teachers, and that they make less of their opportunities than their less advantaged classmates. Liberal-minded folk usually discount this tenet, refusing to believe that the devil plays checkers exclusively on the coattails of affluent youngsters. But statistics published last week by School & Society appeared to support the credo...
...Timothy Stone wired to the New York World: CHICKEN HAS TWO HEADS HOW MUCH. Next day the World editors received 100 words and a photograph of Winsted's two-headed chicken. Story-Teller Stone followed up this success with many another story. Now, at 54, he is the affluent, ruddy-cheeked managing editor of the Winsted Citizen, correspondent for several other newspapers and the Associated Press. Best Stone Story: James Daley, hunter, sighted a large buck deer in the woods near Winsted. About its neck he perceived a peculiar red contrivance not common to deer. Puzzled, Hunter Daley took...
...erase, return to the keys, pause, jot, ponder, try again. In the heat of creation many a composer has irrevocably lost inspirations which flashed through his mind's ear and away before he could capture them on paper. Last week came news of an invention to enable affluent pianists to compose at ease, to capture transient beauty before it eludes memory. The device: "Music Writer." The inventor: Dr. Moritz Stoehr, professor of bacteriology at Mount St. Vincent College, N. Y. The principle: same as the typewriter. Dr. Stoehr has labored on his invention for twelve years, earning at last...