Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. The novel is poorly written. Except for its use of the Harding Administration as subject matter, it would be dull-reading. Even as a piece of muckraking, it is unnecessarily exaggerated and crude. However, it stands as one of the few instances in U. S. history where contemporary politics have been used as the basis of a novel. In Europe this type of fiction is no rarity...
...Area 95,400 square miles, more than the combined area of New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire. Population 4,600.000 ; more than that of any state of the U. S. except New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois and Ohio...
...world. Very little is known about El Greco. Even his name is in doubt; students believe that it was Theotocopuli, but the Spaniards of Toledo, in whose country he passed the richest part of his life, found this name barbarous, and never wrote or spoke of him except as Dominico Greco. Great princes of the 16th Century, whose eyes were unsealed, honored him by this name; the men of nearer times, putting on once more fetters laid off in the Renaissance, wondered only whether Greco was mad or astigmatic, a Cretan voluptuary, or a disciple of the art of Byzantium...
...manufacture and was substituted for the constructive suggestions which alone gave excuse and meaning to my design. Lastly, the editors of Liberty, possessed by an extreme Annanias complex, left me to shoulder the blame for their casuistry by appending the following editors' note:--"The article is printed as submitted, except that certain elisions have been made for the sake of brevity...
With about 40 candidates reporting to Coach E. L. Bigelow 21 at the initial meeting at the Varsity Club yesterday, the University hockey season was officially launched. Conditioning work for all men except those who have been playing football will start at once and continue throughout the week. It is planned to get the squad on the ice in the Arena at the first of next week...