Word: classically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...schoolboy's estate for the undoubted social elevation of a man of the world, a worker in the City. But time has dimmed the glories of his position, and with heels on the rungs of his office chair, his head is in the clouds. He pictures himself in the classic halls of learning, and the more he pictures, the less work he accomplishes until at length Henry decides to transport him bodily to that locale where he seems already to abide in spirit...
...spinthariscope, by which the "Brownian movement," or perpetual ac tivity of the molecules, can be seen. ¶ The formation of crystals under polarized light, showing how the world would look if we had the power of seeing by ultraviolet rays. ¶ Faraday's classic magnet apparatus side by side with the latest developments of radio. The visitor can control the exhaustion of a vacuum tube, and the beautiful effects of electrical discharge through the rarefield gas. ¶ The famous dinosaur eggs discovered by the third Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History...
...years Harvard has been forced into the background at the Philadelphia track classic by its more powerful college rivals. But on Saturday the squad from Cambridge succeeded in putting Harvard back into the front rank among contenders for college track honors...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Walter Hampden in a superb performance of this French classic which puts to rout the adage about all being fair in love...
...doesn't look out this little millionaire will degenerate into America's smallest ham. Those who are now guiding his destinies are already filling him up with stagy tricks, turning him into the poor little rich boy. In his latest picture, made from Ouida's classic, A Dog of Flanders, Jackie does just what you might expect a small-time vaudevillian to do under given circumstances. There are many points of wistful appeal in the tale of the little Dutch orphan, persecuted by the narrow village as a tiny vagabond, who wins a prize and recognition with...