Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three have had salaried jobs, one of three is now employed. >Favorite occupations: teaching, secretarial or clerical work, social work, research, writing. Among the alumnae are reliefers, a circus rider, three college presidents-Katharine Blunt (Connecticut), Constance Warren (Sarah Lawrence), Mildred McAfee (Wellesley)-a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Josephine Roche...
...entire group of figures, of which Christ is the foremost, is depicted by the artist as floating in the heavens upon a small field of clouds. The natural and the super natural are joined and with case, as in many of Raphacl's paintings, but in a blunt, effective manner which reveals the cross-play of the old tradition with the new spirit...
...Ministry of Shipping, to succeed Sir John Gilmour, who died last fortnight, went strapping, ambitious Robert Spear Hudson, a blunt ex-diplomat who as Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade was one of the junior ministers who revolted against Neville Chamberlain after Munich. After Chamberlain warned the rebels to play ball, Hudson played ball. Last summer he took credit for Behind-the-Scenes-Man Sir Horace Wilson's abortive plan to offer Germany credits and access to world markets in exchange for peace. Said the Spectator last week: "His appointment . . . over the head of Sir Arthur Salter, whose...
...Tabasco jungle, he discovered five more heads, several bigger than the Veracruz find. Last week the National Geographic Society released a picture of one of them, estimated to weigh 20 tons or more. It is 8 ft. i in. high, 20 ft. 10 in. around. Flat-faced, blunt-featured, almost earless, capped by a queer headpiece, it looks something like a subthyroid football player...
...Umbrella ribs provided with blunt tips, to protect eyes...