Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generic evil, of which all other are varieties, is, according to Mr. Fruchs, the exploitation of man by man. His book is an attempt to trace its course, from its earliest appearance in primitive society, to a communistic Utopia somewhere in the distant future, in which all exploitation shall have ceased and the universal brotherhood of man shall have been accomplished. In the course of this discussion Mr. Fruchs finds occasion to inveigh against such specific evils as the over-emphasis of athletics, the philosophies of Plato and Nietzsche, the plight of the Nottingham weavers at the beginning...
...Binyon emphasized the importance of animals in the earliest portraits made by man. Before the era of Buddhism, the speaker stated, Chinese art was distinguished by a delicacy and sureness of touch and a love of sinuous movement, with curiosity and mystery flourishing side by side with refinement and wisdom...
...considers the decision utterly untenable and a clear violation of the American-Hellenic Treaty of Extradition signed at Athens on May 6, 1931. . . . Accordingly, I am instructed to give formal notice herewith of my Government's denunciation of the Treaty with a view to its termination at the earliest date possible. . . ." Since without an extradition treaty Fugitive Insull can scarcely be extradited (though the Greek Government could of course deport him), he plucked up spirits...
According to Professor Binyon, China maintains the prestige in Asia that Greece held for the rest of the world. The earliest Chinese paintings date from the fourth century, while Japanese, Indian, and Persian works of art did not appear until at least the sixth century. In the eighth century, Buddhism invaded China, and left its indelible influence on the paintings and sculpture of the nation...
...current New England Quarterly, Professor E. K. Rand has undertaken to investigate and annotate Harvard's earliest commencement exercises. He has entitled his article, "Liberal Education in Seventeenth-Century Harvard," utilizing this apparent anachronism as a graceful method of introducing the vir liberalis and the trivium-quadrivium. The burden of Professor Rand's writing is to outline the development of those courses which President Dunster classed as "Technologicae," a term derived from the Greek technai and meaning, according to Professor Rand, the "arts as a whole." What would otherwise have been a pedantic display of mossy notes becomes, under Professor...