Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every few months smart Jap Artist Foujita is a Paris sensation. Not long ago he appeared in Deauville wearing leopard skin trousers, grey suspenders, no shirt and a high silk hat. "Temperament" murmured gullibles. "Poseur!" stormed the jealous. The smart Deauvillites voted him jocularly their "best dressed man."
George Washington was warrior, statesman, sportsman, gentleman. Yet few pictures or statues of him suggest more than one side of his nature. In Artist Gilbert Stuart's famed portrait he is a gracious, handsome worthy. Other paintings depict him as a conventional, bewigged military man; a somewhat pompous dignitary...
The winds of liberalism in the Presbyterian Church last week met gusty resistance. When the Presbyterian General Assembly recently vested control of Princeton Theological Seminary in a single body (instead of dual control by trustees and directors) it virtually assured the ascendance of Modernism in the oldest, richest Presbyterian seminary...
There are only two medical schools for the 10,000,000 Negroes in the U. S.: Howard University Medical School at Washington, and Meharry Medical College at Nashville. Each has about 250 students enrolled, each graduates about 50 yearly. A few good students who can find no room, at Howard...
This idea published, Aeronautics waited for public comment. Last week it announced honestly: "So far nothing has materialized except a notable expression of sympathy from a large share of the daily press, and a few of the usual large gestures from those who profess to believe that the present hodgepodge...