Word: colors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state offices on the outcome: Ma to resign if he beat her by a single vote; Dan to resign if she beat him by 25,000 Perhaps that seems a casual bandying of high public trust, but they like things casual in Texas. The candiates' gamble added local color to the campaign which was last week rushing to a climax...
...years after Appomattox, unto two ex-slaves of Virginia was born a ninth child-Carter Godwin Woodson. Doubly handicapped by color and by poverty, he nevertheless had acquired by 1912 a University of Chicago M. A. and a Harvard Ph. D. His outstanding achievement was the organization of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in connection with which he has devoted his life to the collection of sociological and historical documents of Negro significance. Interested readers perusing casually the maze of unfamiliar facts portrayed in history viewed through smoked glasses* glance twice at such information...
George Santayana (1863-), who, though born in Spain and now living in England, long studied and taught at Harvard. He has been called an "immaculate materialist." He accepts universal mechanism as he accepts his friends' names, but finds it capable of such infinite variation, color, beauty, that it satisfies his poet's soul, just as the Catholic Church moves him esthetically without for an instant compelling his belief. He expresses the vestiges of Classicism in the U. S., modernizing Aristotle...
...Latest of these books, telling the story and elaborating the discoveries of Beebe's voyage to the Sargasso Sea,, the Humboldt current, Volcanic Galapagos and the prehistoric gorge of the Hudson (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925 et seq.) ; replete with descriptions and exquisite hand-painted color plates of extraordinary sea creatures, from pygmy sharks to titan devilfish; written in Explorer Beebe's best scientifico-romantic vein -is THE ARCTURUS ADVENTURE-William Beebe-Putnam...
Just such is the danger which menaces the American college, hidden in the warmth, the flame, the color and the laughter of its Class Day and Commencement celebrations. It is an offering by each individual to his own loyalty, to a totem, a kindred in this case with legions and generations of Harvard men. But such a sacrifice must not come unaccompanied by clear understanding and appreciation. The mass form assumed by the celebration tends constantly to render this appreciation more difficult and it is only the strict avoidance of set formulae and taboos which may keep it from becoming...