Word: depth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they might him as to the academic inadequacies of today's Freshmen--their inability to study, their lack of even a superficial acquaintance with the world's thoughts and deeds. In brief, Harvard can urge the schools to modernize their teaching of both method and content, also to give depth and integration to their training, so that the existing gap between schools and colleges may be transformed into one continuous educational growth...
...type of pseudo-Persian fantasy, with harem maidens, moons and gazelles, affected by occidental illustrators. This painting, 6 by 8½ in., belongs to the Timurid period of 'Persian art, after the Mongol conquerors, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, had brought in Chinese influences. But there is no Chinese depth or shading in the picture. The pure red, gold, blue and green robes of the figures, their rouged cheeks and the formalized tree and flowers are all in the Persian style of clear, brilliant, primarily decorative design...
Under a confining pressure equivalent to a depth of 32 miles underground, a limestone cylinder was compressed 35 percent in length without shattering. Similar tests show that the flow of rocks under pressure is mathematically alike to the flow of metals...
...This year's team," said Neufeld, "is more solid and has more depth than that of last year, but it is not very secure about half the list. Graduation last year took from us many of the best men we have ever worked with in the College. They left not a few difficult positions to be filled on the Varsity...
...Brooklynite Whitman stirred up local talk of monumentalizing the poet. In Manhattan, meanwhile. Justin Sturm, famed ex-Yale end ('21). ex-novelist. Westport, Conn.'s most popular sculptor, had an exhibition at the Karl Freund Galleries in which a wonderful lack of subconscious or other depth (see col. 2) appeared in several homey, well-finished studies...