Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ficke then explained the technique in the creation of the prints which date from 1680 to 1780 and illustrate the first and second periods of the art--from the black and white prints colored by hand through the use of two three color blocks. These include the work of Harunoba, who was the first to realize the possibilities of full color printing...
What is planned is the creation of an ideal. The trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation, which has undertaken the enterprise, have appointed a committee of prominent New Yorkers who will give to the people within the next few years a definite plan; the burden of accomplishment is then shifted to the people themselves. Needless to say, the plan will represent the best efforts of engineers, artists, architects, social workers, and economists. Four exhaustive preliminary surveys have been organized; analyzing living conditions: existing law in control of the area; topographical and physical facilities; and the economic and industrial potentialites...
Despite this scattering of peroxide hairs among the silver, however, the opera still remains a delightful and amusing creation. Straus's score is still "a thing of beauty and a joy forever". Moreover the settings of the first act combine brilliance of color with an ingenious use of draperies, and the whole is no further from the actualities of Bulgaria than the nature of the piece demands. The garden scene, likewise, is most picturesque, and is not sufficiently like any known landscape as to mislead even the most realistically-minded...
...outstanding sore spot in European politics-the reparations problem. A large part of all the post-war difficulties centers about the amount of the payments exacted from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles; and yet, as Lloyd George has said, the treaties did not cause the reparations. Their creation is due to the fact that there is something to repair. If the Versailles compact is altered, the burden is merely shifted from Germany to France without solving the problem. In dealing with the whole question Britain, or that portion of Britain still controlled by Lloyd George, must be guided...
...Noble lectures at the University were first given in 1898, and were permanently established by the creation of the William Belden Noble Lectures Fund in 1906. Among the past lecturers have been the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt '80, Professor George Herbert Palmer '64, Bishop William Boyd Carpenter, Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, Hon. '09, and Bishop Charles H. Brent, Hon. '13. The series will be resumed this year after having lapsed since...