Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Breasted's epochal History of Egypt (1905), Sir Arthur Evans' report on Pre-Hellenic Crete (1921-35). One result is that any good advertising artist now knows more about the very fine arts of the Nile valley and the Aegean islands than Sir Joshua Reynolds, for example, ever guessed...
Charlemagne was buried in a Persian shroud, and the late John Singer Sargent thought a certain Persian carpet "worth all the pictures ever painted." But, as connoisseurs know, weaving was not the only beautiful art of the Persians. Scholars may be engrossed by the Survey's detailed evidence that Persian art began even before Egypt's, that its course from 4000 B.C. to 1700 A.D. is the longest unbroken art tradition in human history, that it was the fountainhead of all Moslem art and the great synthesizer of the Orient, that such structural standbys as ribbed, transversal vaulting...
...Ever since, Dr. Cutten has kept busy shocking U. S. humanitarians by calling social security "degrading," denouncing "parasitic paupers," modern medicine and modern philanthropy. Reviewing his utterances, the New York World-Telegram once concluded that "Dr. Cutten wanted a dictator...
...phlebitis (inflammation of the veins), he listened at his radio, beamed with joy as he heard his beloved Yankees annihilate the Chicago Cubs in four straight victories. The colonel was as pleased as Punch. His Yankees were toasted as the greatest team in baseball history, the only outfit that ever won three World Series in a row. His farm teams, too, were tops. Of his 14 minor-league teams, eight won their pennants, one took the Little World Series, and four others got into playoffs...
...clause in Mr. Cobb's will establishing the Fund, referred to Professor Washburn as a "learned and greatly beloved professor, who rendered eminent services to the School by long years of devotion to its interests. By his method of instruction, noble character and ever-friendly encouragement, he was an inspiration to his students to a remarkable degree, and, though half a century and more has passed since then, yet his memory is still treasured in a affection by those once members of his classes who still survive...