Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Hind's constant aim in these lectures, delivered when he held the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry in 1930-31, was not to add to the general sum of knowledge about Rembrandt; but to stimulate and further enjoyment in his works. And for this reason the lectures avoid the stiff formality of a thesis, and present an attitude as delightful as it is rare toward the work of the greatest of the Flemish school...
...institution is so vast that to help avoid confusion the architects (Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott of Boston) put green floors in the surgical sections, blue floors in the operating departments, grey in the medical divisions. There are special light fixtures for each department. Wherever corridors intersect, a star in the floor shows the points of the compass...
...coal, $20,000,000 in chemicals, $12,000,000 in electrical apparatus, $3,000,000 in glass & glassware. That some of these products were not mentioned in the published summaries was taken to mean, not that they were omitted from the agreement, but that Canada wanted to avoid lobbying in Parliament and an inrush of goods for sale. U. S. motorcar manufacturers were delighted to learn that no agreement was reached increasing the "Empire content" of assembled products (in Canada, 50%; in Britain...
...make them realize the seriousness of conditions. ... I must make them realize that they are serving the Emperor. Those who are serving the Emperor should not let one single person in this country suffer from starvation. They should refrain from such luxury as going to summer resorts to avoid a little heat...
...could help me with any rule, for the reading of that book is a creative act in which no one can stand in our stead, or even collaborate with us. And therefore how many there are who shrink from writing it; how many tasks are undertaken in order to avoid that one! Each happening, the Dreyfus case, the War, supplied fresh excuses to the writers for not deciphering that book?they wished to assure the triumph of right, rebuild the moral unity of the nation, and they had no time to think of literature. . . . But ... art is the most real...