Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would assist materially the educational policy which is being pursued at Princeton. This policy, if we read it aright, is to introduce the undergraduate to the materials of various fields of knowledge and encourage him to take advantage of them, rather than to confront him with a a lifeless array of facts summarizing the subject; and care is taken to wood out as soon as possible those not capable of sustaining this intellectual freedom. It is, of course, a truism that concentration and interest in a field of study increases in proportion as interruptions are eliminated...
Director Geddes has telescoped 20 scenes into 13. These are all played on one huge set, a cunningly fashioned array of forestage, tiers and jutting elevations. There are 14 ways for the actors to get on and off quickly. For effects of grandeur and to isolate the various spheres of activity, Producer Geddes has resorted to a battery of large colored spotlights. Give Mr. Geddes a set of spotlights and you are very likely to disregard the play. No one pays much attention to Ophelia's mad scene because just then Mr. Geddes displays a most extraordinary lighting trick...
...band led the parade around the Baker Library booming out college songs which were chanted by the torch bearers following in a colorful array some two blocks long. After a session of enthusiasiastic cheering about the towering bonfire, the crowd gathered around the speakers' platform where E.S. Judd '32, football manager, introduced Capt. Stan Yudicky, veteran end, who was greeted by tremendous applause. He gave a short talk in behalf of the players...
...tarry in the art museums of each city about six weeks. Never before have art lovers in the U. S. had the chance of so long or so extensive a look at Milles' handiwork. In fact, nowhere else except in his own garden outside Stockholm has such an array of Milles ever been seen. At the 56th Street Galleries, Manhattan, last year there was a small exhibition. George Fisher Baker Jr. bought a fountain - similar to one in the sculptor's home - for $20,000. Banker Baker set his fountain up in the garden of his Park Avenue...
...certainly this material will be in the form of a veto ammunition. The Philippines Herald, nationalist sheet, sensed this when it declared: "We would wish that the purpose of this mission be one of inquiry into the necessary details of separation. Yet it might be that of gathering an array of facts so devastating as to make a presidential veto of Philippine independence preclude further agitation and argument...