Word: dint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bacon's first exhibition, which opened in a London gallery last week, represented a minor triumph for his tight, bright little circle of admirers. By dint of carefully mingled rapture and doubt, they had persuaded him to save twelve canvases for the show. Whether his twelve survivors represented a triumph for Bacon was another question. The paintings did not look like the work of a perfectionist. Done in an elaborately sketchy technique, they were remarkable chiefly for horror. Among them were studies of lumpish, long-necked figures squatting on tabletops, a sinister) male nude disappearing through a curtain...
...usual, the Americans ran into snags. One student stayed a little toe late in the Colosseum, and found himself locked in for the night--he only got out by dint of a great deal of shouting and pounding at the gate. Another unfortunate fell into the Grand Canal in Venice...
...Answer. By dint of will power rather than brilliance, Schweitzer passed creditably in his studies at the Gymnasium (preparatory school), and at 18 entered the University of Strasbourg to major in philosophy and theology. He began to enjoy himself hugely. Strasbourg's faculty was young and stimulating, his work was rewarding, and he had already begun lessons with the famed French organist, Charles Marie Widor. But Schweitzer's thoughtful happiness also carried with it some pain. "It became steadily clearer to me," he has written, "that I had not the inward right to take as a matter...
Though the whole process was one of mute foreboding, like a visit to a dentist or a piano teacher, the average citizen held still for the frisk and sometimes even managed a wan smile. By dint of withholding and pay-as-you-go plans, the government usually had his tax money by March anyhow. And this year, because of tax law changes in 1948, he could experience a temporary and spurious elation-of approximately 50 million taxpayers (5,000,000 fewer than last year's record total), 80% would get rebates...
Correspondents knew what to expect when, on the day before the signing, Greek porters unloaded cartons and crates of Arabic goodies, obviously for a celebration, from a DC-3 that had flown in from Cairo. Historic Beersheba, crossroads of the Negeb desert, had been the last stumbling block. By dint of arms, the Jews had Beersheba, and they believed it indispensable as a base for their desert reclamation projects. Before Seif edDin would give it up formally, he had to fly to Cairo for his government's consent. If he got consent, he told the correspondents, he would bring...