Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...island but a close group of some 300 forming a sort of fishhook about 14 mi. long. The islands were discovered in the 15th Century by one Juan Bermudez, a Spaniard who had the misfortune to be wrecked there with a cargo of hogs. Most of Bermuda's earliest visitations were forcible. In 1609 Sir George Somers was shipwrecked there, established the first permanent settlement and gave the little archipelago its alternate name of Somers Islands. The town of St. George, first capital of Bermuda, is named not for Britain's patron saint but for Sir George Somers...
...contemporary French Art, not only in the field of painting; but in the graphic arts, as a sculptor, and as a talented stage designer. He was born in Malaga in 1881, taking the name of his mother, who taught him the foundations of the painter's art. His earliest paintings, from 1901 to 1907, were of the symbolist school...
Several pieces of great rarity are to be included in the collection. One a block-book is of peculiar interest as it is an example of the earliest type of book-printing in Europe. Owing to the generosity of Mr. L. J. Rosenwald, visitors will be permitted to see what is probably the only engraving in this country representing the craft of the famous fifteenth-century artist, the Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet...
...Earliest selection is from The Booke of Hunting (1576) by George Turberville; latest, long excerpts from Masefield's Reynard the Fox. In between you will find many a roaring song, piece of horsey wisdom, oldport reminiscence, shrewd talk to mull over. The U. S. is represented as well as England, from George Washington to the late Major William Austin Wadsworth, Master of the Genesee Valley Hounds. One of the best bits is from Major Wadsworth's A Bible: "Although you may be convinced that it improves wheat to ride over it, the opinion is not diffused or popular...
...failed to respond. No effort is to be made to compile the data from this investigation until over 90 per cent of the class have been heard from, since only then will the results have significance. The offending Seniors are therefore urged to return their questionnaires at the earliest opportunity. Last year 92 percent of the questionnaires were returned...