Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In London the Royal Academy made an important announcement. It has appointed a distinguished committee of artists and scientific experts "to investigate the very perplexing problem of cleaning old masterpieces." For a long time restoring and cleaning has been a matter of the greatest secrecy and not infrequently a matter...
Then came the Eli disaster on Saturday, May 24. Ingraham and Captain Pfaffmann won their singles and doubles matches. In every other match, Yale was victorious. The biggest surprise of the afternoon was Ingraham's triumph over Captain Arnold Jones. After losing the first set, he easily pulled through with...
Francois Descamps, manager of Pugilist Carpentier: "At Michigan City, Ind., I discovered that two ringside tickets for the Carpentier-Gibbons fight (see Page 27) had been stolen from my pocket. Reports said that 'the excitable little Frenchman . . . went off in a tantrum,' that Frank Parker, fight promoter, escorted...
The author, who is a Roman Catholic as well as an authoritarian, emphasizes a religious contrast, presented in the fact that while any given section of Europe is either predominantly Catholic or predominantly Protestant, the U.S. contains both types of religion together. In literature we are different, in language we...
The fact that the human impulse to swallow these bitter pills at once in creases the difficulty of the first year to the breaking point is not, nevertheless, a sound argument for condemning the whole concentration and distribution scheme. In theory, the ideal of a balanced general knowledge of the...