Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spacious solidity. "Storage Plant" embodies precision without loss of emotional content. The use of clear color together with his distinctive way of turning a relatively unimportant subject into an impressive, work of art; gives a natural force to Hopper's paintings. His clear, cloudless skies, fresh grass, and firm buildings, make a person momentarily forget that he is inside a museum...
...proposal, made public today, parries with beautiful logic and an extremely facile pen Mayor Lyons' request. The answer is, "No." And the President has set forth a justification of Harvard's refusal that is little short of classic. It is perhaps a Harvard Bill of Rights; it takes a firm stand on the question of taxation...
...Poles in Danzig there was some encouragement in the arrival at Gdynia, the all-Polish port only twelve miles northwest of Danzig, of Polish artillery. And just to keep the record straight the Polish Government reiterated its oft-repeated firm stand: "Any attempt to alter the present state of affairs in Danzig will have as an immediate effect immediate action by the Polish military forces, which at present are in a state of readiness...
...Episcopal family, Heywood Broun is one of the ablest Bible-quoters in U. S. journalism. At Harvard he was most influenced by a course in the Bible as English Literature. He is today happily married to a Catholic second wife-Constantina Maria Incoronata Fruscella Dooley ("Connie") Broun. But "Connie," firm as she is in dealing with her husband, did not bully him into turning Catholic. Broun's conversion came slowly, was sealed in the talk with the newspaper friend turned priest-Rev. Edward Patrick Dowling, S. J., 40, associate editor of the Queen's Work in St. Louis...
...Schwab's firm belief that such fits can be definitely cured or at least greatly diminished