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Word: classics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia University desires to complete its already very large curriculum, it may well establish the Chair of Spiritonomy and Spirities proposed by Mr. Chelsey, a New York spiritualist. Nothing could be more appropriate than to add these new sciences to the classic ones, Salesmanship and Domestic Science. Mr. Chelsey is now in touch with the late Dr. Charles Steinmetz, and with that aid is attempting to make an invention to "free mankind from its deplorable ignorance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPIRITS FROM THE VASTY DEEP | 4/29/1932 | See Source »

Accustomed as tabloid readers are to seeing Sunday magazine articles enriched by reproductions of classic paintings- often of Eves and Bathshebas nuder than Follies beauties-readers of last Sunday's New York Mirror magazine section blinked in bewilderment at the fertile genius of the make-up man who had coupled Painter Jean Francois Millet's famed '"Gleaners" with an article by Kathleen Norris. Substance of Author Norris' article was a complaint that employers are unfair to married women, fill jobs with unmarried women. "Idleness," pleaded the writer, ''and the lack of means of self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Gleaners v. Employers | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

...enigmatic smile. To him, there is nothing in his writings either "surprising or subversive, but the mere common sense of our predicament as passionate bits of earth and water." To dignify men's passions, men's predicaments, he had merely motivated his tragedies with themes al ready given classic sanction by the Greeks. A brief excursion into Christian mythology in Dear Judas, apparently taken from sense of duty, did not much advance his thought; neither did Descent to the Dead, a compilation of 16 poems written in Ireland and Great Britain on a trip with his wife and twins about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Harrowed Marrow | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...Child is father of the Man," said Poet Wordsworth. Author Carossa, a lung-disease specialist since 1903, seconds Wordsworth. "The things one has loved and done in the first ten years of life one will always love and always do." What he himself loved and did, told with classic deftness and grace, makes up a fairy tale that everybody, even psychoanalysts, will find strangely beautiful and true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rainbow Before Storm | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

Another part of the exhibit shows typical examples of New York sky-scrapers ranging from the classic Gothic of the Woolworth Building, to the ultra modern emphasis upon the vertical line as exemplified in the soaring tiers of windows, and strips of concrete of the Daily News Building. The graduated indents of the older Chanin Building are in sharp contrast to the sheer lift of the new Empire State Building. showing that transition is taking place rapidly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/24/1932 | See Source »

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