Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prospered under the arrangement that they were ready to fight even the small student cooperative which is now safely located in Andover Hall. Their fight, which probably included pressure on the Cambridge Savings Bank to deny an important lease, was unsuccessful, and today the cooperative is clear evidence that the problem can be solved...
...fine. Anybody could have said it once; it takes a poet to repeat (cf. Poe's Ulalume, Swinburne's A Match, and many others). I knew your mad prose pace would get you; that somebody would rebel. Congratulations on a more leisurely tempo! The "Curt" of "Curt, Clear, Complete" has been dealt a mortal blow. Enter now the style rococo and redundant...
...crates of oranges and grapefruit to send to Maine. Few medicines will help victims of scurvy, and best cure for the disease lies in an abundance of natural fruit juices. But although he appreciated Federal aid, Commissioner Lead-better's medical director, Dr. George Holden Coombs, made it clear that proud Republican Maine could solve her scurvy problem her own way. "Vitamin C," he said, ". . . is present in the potatoes which are raised in large quantities there in Aroostook. But it is readily lost if the potato is cooked after peeling. Vitamin C is readily soluble in water...
Blake's appearance was handsome, resolute and rather wild, with very large eyes. His theory of art excluded ordinary realism, involved an utter dependence on imagination and on clear and perfect line in rendering it. "All the copies, or pretended copies of Nature, from Rembrandt to Reynolds, prove that Nature becomes to its victim nothing but blots and blurs." What sources his work had were in Renaissance pictures which he knew through his own large collection of prints. His masterwork, done after he was 50, consisted of pencil and watercolor illustrations such as The Temptation...
Opportunity for Harvard to make clear its position in the Sino-Japanese War and take a real step in furthering international scholarship was outlined by John K. Fairbank '29, instructor in History, as he discussed the drive for books and funds to support China's fleeing universities starting this week...