Word: fined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adoption of an examination in Greek mythology and the Bible the division of Fine Arts has subscribed to the fashion current in the field of the humanities of widening the latitude of study to embrace topics related to the central theme in their status as background or sources. An understanding of these rich stores of artistic symbolism will deepen the meaning of the carved or painted subject for the student. There have been men who could explain the significance of Judith and Holofernes in oil or marble, who did not know, to borrow sporting parlance, what league these principals played...
...many of them are daily made to speculate upon the meaning concealed in the curiously flat expanse of paint that overlooks the turn of the stair. The more energetic and intellectually curious of its observers have no doubt many times been driven to enrolment in courses in the fine arts if for no other reason than a better understanding of the enigmatic Sargent. The more easily satisfied and perhaps more beotian of the student body dismiss the work as no good or at least negatively attractive and think no more about...
...criticism contemporary with the unveiling of the two murals, appearing in the Boston Evening Transcript stated. "...And indeed here are found in a marked degree those qualities which make a mural painting great--nobility of subject together with able and decorative handling in expressing it fully. In short a fine and strong conception in terms of color and light and shade, which make in themselves a beautiful decoration of a given surface...
...entertained the Prince of Wales on and around Long Island and showed him Wall Street. Mr. Williams has a volcano named after him in the Galapagos, whither he helped finance the expedition of William Beebe. Mr. Williams, too, has studied the ocean floor from his fine yacht Warrior, recently sold to George Whelan...
...methane, and its myriad; carbon plus nitrogen gives cyanogen, and its myriad; C plus N plus H gives hydrocyanic acid; C plus N plus H plus O gives urea. There are 400,000 carbon derivatives. All can be made from soft coal. They constitute, in Dr. Slosson's fine phrase, the Fourth Kingdom (after animal, vegetable, mineral...