Word: close
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strongest soccer teams in recent years, this season's booters have high hopes of taking the Eastern intercollegiate Championship before they close their season against Yale on November...
...facts that burden down the usual narrative, and by her subjective approach produces a series of vivid sketches. The first one, concerning her stay at one of the Cape Verde Islands where the wind blew forever and time meant nothing, is an artistic triumph, and at times comes very close to being poetry. it is beautiful prose, natural, rhythmic, and expressive...
...Pianist Paderewski has lived to see his dreams of Polish independence realized and himself a legend in the history of music, it is naturally toward his heyday, the Victorian era, that his thoughts most fondly turn. "The passing of that great period, the nineties," he muses, "brought to a close a tremendous era, a flowering of all that was most beautiful and elegant in life. We shall not see its like again...
...almost half the artists included are on the Nazi undesirable list. Some have begun to paint ostentatiously pretty pictures to atone for past sins, others are allowed, like Karl Hofer, to paint as they please but not to exhibit in Germany. Being a work of art, Hofer's close-knit painting of two defenseless figures in an arbitrary swirl of blue drapery had more than one meaning, but it might certainly refer to the ill wind faced by German artists...
Book publishers are agreed that more books would be sold if people had more money to buy them, more time to read them. Obvious solutions would be to make books cheaper and shorter. For most publishers either course is close to impossible. For magazine publishers who can buy the right to boil down books, the problem is not so tough...