Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present Greater German Reich contains no territory which was not, from the earliest times, a part of this Reich, which was not bound up with it or subject to its sovereignty...
Cloistered in his 40 acres of cypress, fir and formal garden, with the delicate profile of the Apennines behind and the valley of the Arno below, Bernard Berenson applied his gifts of lucidity and feeling to the unsolved problems of Italian art. One of his earliest and most famous feats was the creation of a hypothetical Florentine artist, Amico di Sandro (Friend of Botticelli) to account for various pictures then attributed to Pollaiuolo, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli and others. Rich dealers and collectors sought the advice of "B. B." on doubtful pictures. They paid him well for it-so well that...
...Maurice Stephen Sheehy, able young Catholic University executive (TIME, Feb. 13), went on the radio with a scholarly speech detailing the pro-Jewish policies of the Popes, from the earliest (the first Pope, St. Peter, and several of his immediate successors were born Jews) to the late Pius XL Father Sheehy's talk was made under the auspices of a new, interfaith Council Against Intolerance in America...
...Kober. But today, awake to the troubled world around her, Lillian Hellman loafs seldom. Militantly antifascist, she two years ago spent a month under bombardment visiting Loyalist Spain, returned to champion its cause all over the U. S. Her next play will be a dramatization of one of the earliest and one of the greatest of social-minded novels, Zola's Germinal...
Utrillo partisans could not deny that he often uses postcards as departing points for paintings of Paris street scenes which he knows well. But they could think of other Utrillo inspirations besides postcards. Among the earliest were lumps of sugar soaked in absinthe which his mother tossed him when he was ten to shut him up. By the age of 15 he was drawing steady inspiration from gin and whiskey bottles. By the '305 he had moved on to lamp fuel, mentholated alcohol, petroleum, benzine, eau de cologne, ether, with opium and hashish on the side. In 1936 London...