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Word: doth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where the new and beautiful Temple Emanu-El, costing $8,000,000, was opened. Famed members of this synagog include, besides the late great Louis Marshall (TIME, Sept. 23), Daniel Guggenheim, Benjamin Mordecai, Adolph S. Ochs, Roger Williams Straus. Rabbi Nathan Krass told them the temple signified that "man doth not live by bread only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Temples | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...painter-and therefore qualified to speak-had an argument with a poet on the streets of Florence, as to the relative strength of painting and poetry. That night, Da Vinci wrote in his journal the following paragraph: ''The eye giveth to man a more perfect knowledge than doth the ear. That which is seen is more authentic than that which is heard. In verbal description there is but a series of separate images following one another; whereas in a picture, all images, all colors, appear simultaneously, blending into one, like to sounds in accord, which makes possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...other hand, what doth it profit a man if he ignores a piteous Lampoon to fling his wit to the night winds of Boston? And how regrettable the spectacle of him who forsakes the scrimmage beneath the goal posts to plunge headlong into the disorderly crush around the sausage and scrambled eggs. Undeniably it is Harvard's business to make men but whether she is to make them purely for the satisfaction of the daughters of leisure in Back Bay remains to be seen. Husbanding the golden Jane has been deplored since the time of Omar, but it may still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVE US BACK OUR LEGIONS | 10/9/1928 | See Source »

...Which doth thy brave apostieship repay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union of Three Muses Features Dedication of Fogg Art Museum | 6/21/1927 | See Source »

...high passion and beauty, each age with its own sharp flavor. Poetry being essentially a personal thing, none may credit nor gainsay Novelist Ford's estimate of Poet Pound. As criticism it is a foolish phrase. But it is certain that Ezra Pound is ... a poet that doth drink life As lesser men drink wine. He has been mad through the mountains of Cabaret with Peire Vidal, maddest jongleur of the old time. For the marriage at Cana in Galilee he has written a dance figure that is, so far as one can feel, no less lovely than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VERSE: Jongleur | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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