Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...establishing the Union Major Higginson had the two-fold object of providing a club to which all Harvard men should belong and of providing a centre for the intellectual and extra-curriculum life of the University. Unfortunately neither object has been attained in full; the second has hardly been attained...
...beautiful symphony in the world." Others may and do disagree. But opinion is curiously uniform in praise of this symphony. It is Beethoven at his zenith, technical if not emotional. It is not a big symphony, big as are the third, the fifth or the ninth. It does not belong in or fit into the usual categories. It is unique, and uniquely fascinating. Mr. Monteux's version of it is as an ascending, expanding, dynamic thing, culminating in a veritable rhythmic orgy, was thoroughly logical; to some listeners it seemed that this is less an organic symphonic piece, than...
...inimitable a creature should come to such base uses. Later he heard she had married again-a rich, cranky old Englishman, who lived in South America -and in that marriage recovered for a few years before she died a little of the luxury and spaciousness that seemed to belong to her. And Niel was glad. For, as he came to middle age, he realized that though he had known many women, he had never known one like her and that, though he still failed to comprehend her entirely, to him she had and always would have the power of suggesting...
This report had said that "supremacy of influence" in the Red Cross should not belong to those who were financially most powerful. " No matter how illusory its point of view may appear, no matter how much courage may be necessary to say it, the International Committee believes that the influence of all national societies should have the same weight, although in different fields, in the International Red Cross. And in advancing this it knows that it may be misunderstood. It knows also that it will not offend the high idealism of those who have been and know...
...really necessary for those who wish not only to see but to hear the communion service. But Bishop Manning ordered the amplifier removed from the high altar, as carrying modernism into too sacred a place, where only the cross and candlesticks and sacred vessels of the communion service belong. " Besides, communicants should know their service by heart, and it should not be necessary for them to hear the words of the celebrant." By removing the amplifier Bishop Manning has preserved the traditional sanctity of the altar. And the fact that communicants will be unable to hear the service will undoubtedly...