Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editors of the "Advocate" have taken the only step open to them under the circumstances. That they should suffer from a puritannical trait that has been the curse of American art since its earliest days is patently unjust. The zealous and alert Mr. Leahy has accomplished another in a series of travesties of law enforcement...
...this mecca of the Coptic Christians practically surrounded. Scouting planes made hourly flights over it, could see no trace of Ethiopian troops. Still no attack was made, for in the centre of small Aksum stands a little crenelated stone church, holiest in the empire. There Ethiopia's earliest kings are buried. In it was supposed to lie the true Ark of the Covenant. Before such a Christian shrine Italy dared risk no accident that could be used to breed atrocity stories throughout the Christian world. Day after the official annexation of Aduwa, holy Aksum surrendered without a shot being...
WHOEVER designed William and Mary's earliest buildings, they are certainly more suave, and graceful than Harvard's. Few would agree with Thomas Jefferson's prejudiced epithets: "misshapen piles, which, but that they have roofs would be taken for brick kilns." Box-like they are, but the curve and the arch are introduced for relief. The proportions are ampler, less stilted, than those in the other colonies...
...first successful attempts to establish primarily theological seminaries in Colonial New England and Virginia, with their earliest, long vanished halls and their varying versions of the Georgian vernacular" of the 18th century...
...buildings were of wood, New England's favorite building material in the sixteen hundreds. None remain, but a god drawing of what the original Harvard Hall must have looked like show nothing but an amplification of the typical Early American dwelling house. Tradition thus played large part in our earliest college architecture...