Word: greatests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest interpreter of modern times,'and perhaps of any age, was Gustave Henri Camerlynck. Death found him, last week, in Paris, five days after he had taken to bed with influenza. As Chief Interpreter of the Paris Peace Conference, the Washington Conference, and the First Dawes Committee, Professor Camerlynck received the personal thanks of such statesmen as David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson. He was to have interpreted for the new Second Dawes Committee (see col. 2). As illness stole upon him last fortnight, Professor Camerlynck interpreted, for the last time, between Prime Minister Raymond Poincare of France...
Briefly, thinking is a series of images. Even the ignoramus has images, but he is either incapable of being aware of them or too lazy to seize them. The greatest difficulty of the average person, Author Dimnet thinks, lies in the sorting out of confusing or conflicting images...
...California oil fields continued on an unlimited production basis. Unless a national agreement covering all oil fields is reached it would appear that regional agreements can effect no major improvement. Present U. S. production is approximately 2,690,000 barrels a day and wildcatting (opening up new fields, greatest obstacle to controlled production) continues...
Musical Boston has been feeling itself hard put to preserve its reputation. A symphony orchestra is the greatest of luxuries. Its existence depends always on the beneficence of a patron or a group of patrons. Again, last week, the Boston Symphony felt sorely its annual deficit complaint, and printed in the program books a plea for funds. The Boston Symphony's prospective deficit this year is $134,000 as against $87,000 last year...
Manhattan, not Florence, Venice or Paris, is the modern cynosure of esthetic eyes. No matter how disinterested the artists, the art centre is always where patrons are thickest, where coffers are bulging. Never before had Manhattan's greatest museum received photographs into its collections. Such a reception was thus a victory of great moment for photography and for Alfred Stieglitz...