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Word: byrons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photography is only fair, but the material itself is so fascinating that Lost Gods becomes one of the best current illustrations of the educative function of the cinema. It is a record of the expedition, supervised by the Algiers Museum, of the travels in Libya of Archeologist Count Byron Khun de Prorok, whose excavations are made conceivable to non- archeological audiences by the explanation that he is looking for the golden tomb of the White Goddess of the Sahara. Some of the things his camera sees are "the Wall Street of Carthage," a bleak row of empty stone buildings; amphitheatres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 21, 1930 | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...What elements of Byronic philosophy, style or autobiography are revealed by Byron's treatment of the following subjects? (Answer with regard to ten of the thirteen subjects): (a) Gibbon, (b) Azo, (c) pedigress, (d) England, (e) any sort of bird, (f) digestion, (g) Clarens, (h) Juan's mother, (i) Cavalier servant, (j) "The castled crag of Drachenfels" (k) Medora, (l) Laura, (m) In medias...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Please Note | 6/13/1930 | See Source »

...correspondent, whose name is withheld because he is very close to Yale, suggests a number of questions which would be fair to sophomores. They seem to give the mind a chance. for instance, "Show in what way each of the following men represented their era: Milton, Pope, Fielding, Byron. And "Compare the viewpoints of Bacon, Milton and Byron on marriage." Show how Milton justifies the ways of God to man." Give six devices by which Milton enhances his grand style." "Discuss Milton's cosmology or his conception of the Deity.'" These are a few of the questions, but they, seem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Please Note | 6/13/1930 | See Source »

...Many an individualistic woman of long ago bobbed her hair, viz., Joan of Arc, Lady Caroline Lamb (one of Byron's friends), George Sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bobbed Hair | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

Tickets may be obtained at the office of the Council at 6 Byron Street, Boston. The charge for the dinner is $2.00 and the admission to the speaking at 8 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD PROFESSORS WILL ATTEND DINNER NEXT FRIDAY | 5/2/1930 | See Source »

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