Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Memorial Hall Fine Arts 1c New Fogg Large Lect.-rm. Fine Arts 15g New Fogg Small Lect.-rm. French 7 Emerson D Geography 1 Harvard 6 Geology 9 Harvard 5 German 1b, I, II, III Sever 11 German 5 Sever 29 German 6 Emerson J Government 9b Sever 6 Greek 12 Sever 30 History 5a New Lect. Hall History 9 Emerson J History 39 Emerson J History 64 Sever 18 Latin B, I, II, III Mr. Peterkin, I Sever 17 Mr. Hammond, II Sever 18 Mr. Glynn, III Sever 23 Latin 1 Sever 24 Mathematics C II Harvard 2 Mathematics...
...upon these two items-Greek loan and Steel refund-that Democrat Garner pounced in a speech designed to embarrass Mr. Mellon thoroughly. Said Mr. Garner: "In order to induce you to pass it [Greek loan], he [Mr. Mellon] made a misleading-and the facts show, it seems to me-a deliberately false statement as to . . . the prospects of our Treasury...
...Perhaps there are a few more than 30 of the Imperial Family who have enough to buy the few things we want. I write books, and now I lecture. I teach not a religion but Spirituality that is in all religions. Every one! But especially in the Russian-the Greek Orthodox Church-that is so flexible, so broad that every Russian can understand...
...mistress of six languages besides her own, a student of Greek, a superb calligraphist, an excellent musician. She was a connoisseur of painting and poetry. She danced, after the Florentine style, with a high magnificence that astonished beholders. Her conversation, full, not only of humor, but of elegance and wit, revealed an unerring social sense, a charming delicacy of personal perception. It was this spiritual versatility which made her one of the supreme diplomatists of history...
...Cesarevitch, the emotions of an emotional people ran riot, mingling curiosity and doubt with vague glamorous expectations and pity. Of Anglo-German lineage-would she sympathize with Slavic-Byzantine fancies and foibles? Profoundly religious, she had resisted a change of faith, then, suddenly veered, passionately to avow Greek orthodoxy-was it for love of the Cesarevitch, or for ulterior reasons? Considering the influences of liberalism, political if not moral, at her British grandmother's court-would she encourage her royal spouse to grant a constitution? In any event, the poor child was to be pitied coming...