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Word: dismays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Certain British print dealers gasped with astonishment and dismay last week when they received back from three Manhattan art establishments several unopened packages of prints by noted artists. Other such shipments had been similarly returned of late, and now members of the Print Sellers' Association of Great Britain realize two things: i) They cannot outsmart the U. S. print-dealers; 2) U. S. print-lovers have grown so appreciative of the work of their fellow countrymen that U. S. dealers can be independent of British, if not of all foreign artists, in black-and-whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U. S. Etching v. British | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...with which Harvard is surrounded is that of the number of Great Men teaching in the classrooms. Nowhere has the roll of names been more brilliant than in the Department of English Literature. For the last year however, the undergraduates concentrating in English have been watching with ill-concealed dismay the increasing regularity of the gaps making their appearance in the ranks of these "Figures" associated with the English Department. The lamented death of Professor Hurlbut, the resignations of Professors Copeland and Perry, and Professor Lowes' temporary residence at Oxford, have been some of the causes resulting in the prevalent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ENGLISH REVIVAL | 1/28/1930 | See Source »

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