Word: deepening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have distribution "trying to know a little about many things" perhaps an occasional movie on Friday evening included. Upon this platform is built the concentration "trying to know a little more about some one thing." Upon the platform of the Freshman dormitories the University is building these Houses, to deepen, richen and concentrate those many acquaintances and experiences with which a Freshman first comes in contact when he enters college...
Last February doctors decided that radium, X-rays or other measures could neither cure her or give her surcease from her terrific pain. The son nursed her, heard her cries, watched the wrinkles of agony deepen in her face. She lacked strength and means for suicide. She begged his pity to kill her. She reasoned with him. Her death was certain. He could but bring it to her sooner, and far more mercifully than the cancer was doing. He pondered...
...Christian Scientist Kline died from a carbuncle in his neck which was allowes fatally to spread, deepen...
...reasonable comment than months of vacillating CRIMSON editorials and whisperings in the parlor have done. Unfortunately to the rest of the country Lampy's attack has been branded as a personal ridicule of Mr. Harkness. The strained, vague and ill-humored gesture of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin helps to deepen this misunderstanding. If the present number be read with a tolerant attitude and in the spirit in which the editors have intended it should be read, there is little cause for accusing the Lampoon of either bad manners or insincerity...
...Bible the division of Fine Arts has subscribed to the fashion current in the field of the humanities of widening the latitude of study to embrace topics related to the central theme in their status as background or sources. An understanding of these rich stores of artistic symbolism will deepen the meaning of the carved or painted subject for the student. There have been men who could explain the significance of Judith and Holofernes in oil or marble, who did not know, to borrow sporting parlance, what league these principals played...