Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theory that God maintains natural and moral evils as contrast and counterbalance to His good...
...Freshmen even when they were living constantly with them. The first year men were not allowed to approach the University training table, and if, occasionally, one straggled by, he immediately received a barrage of every-thing from bread crusts to plates from the upperclassmen. There is quite a contrast now down there. The Freshmen are treated with the same attention and respect as the Seniors, and consequently everybody down there has a better time...
...expects something different from Professor Perry. Characteristically he has written a preface, entitled "The Author's Apology," in an age that has forgotten apologies for such titles as "Tramping on Life." More important, and infinitely pleasing, is the contrast between the tranquil vigor of his prose and the flurried bristling style affected by so many modern essayists...
...progression of pretty models through a series of French negligee adventures affords an opportunity to display trim figures, latest styles, tricky subtitles. The title derives from the heroine's cynical observation that the villainous capitalist would possess her for her flesh rather than her soul which, by contrast, is what interests the hero...
...vagabonding undergraduate be unsatisfied with Goethe and Shakespeare and Professor Howard, he can still spend a pleasant hour between 11 and 12, by attending Professor Edgell's lecture on Venetian painting in Fine Arts Id in the New Fogg Museum. The rich colors of the Venetian masters contrast pleasantly with the finer drawing, but more restrained work of the Florentine school. Let it be remembered also that among the artists of the Venetian school are Giovanni. Bellini, Titian, Tinterette, Veronesse, Tiepolo and many others...