Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another find of the season this one made at Chicen. Itza. consisted of a magnificent turquoise mosaic plaque. The work at Chicen Itza has centered in a group o" 1,000 columns and more particularly at the Temple of Warriors...
...explores were previously unknown to literature. And he creates Upheaval." With these words Mr. Julius Meief-Graefe commences the latest biography of one of the great trilogy of Russian writers, perhaps even, if one may attempt to set foot upon the odious road of comparisons, the greatest of the group which put a new literature before the world: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev. Tolstoy and Turgenev painted upon what might be called a variation of the Western canvas, with new colors; Dostoevsky created a new easel and a new technique. It is the difference between a Raphael and a Rembrant...
...plot, however, with its complications and solutions, is really rather incidental, for the book is essentially a book of character studies, and therein lies its chief virtue. It is mainly concerned with the interplay of the emotions and desires and actions of a group of people in a given setting, complicated by the influences and forces that their foreign environment brings to bear on them. Mr. Cozzens uses Cuba much as Kipling used Simla. And as in Kipling, the writing is character portraiture, rather than development. Consequently the people are painted in rather brighter colors than strict realism allows, with...
...There is hardly any need to comment on the Harvard backfield. Obviously you possess several brilliant runners and defense players composing a well balanced group. If Harvard continues to turn out the performance which it gave against us today I think it will cause a lot of worry this fall to any team in the East...
Radio Lamp Lighters. Ordinarily street electric lamps are turned on and off in groups, by men throwing switches in scattered control stations in various parts of the community. Those control stations are expensive to maintain. To replace the men and stations Westinghouse developed a radio device, which Boston Edison Co. began to use last week on a circuit of 70 street lights. The device utilizes the fact that an electric wire can carry several currents of different frequencies. There are the carrier current and the riding currents. In the base of each of the 70 Boston lamp posts...