Word: groups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newark Preparatory School is sending up a group of picked runners. Charles Kelley of the New Jersey school has bettered 50 seconds in the quarter several times, while William Bloor, entered in the half mile, turned in a time of 1 minute 59 2-5 seconds for the event at Yale last year...
...speak of the life of these comrades of mine." His subjects are in the panorama of Mexican modes and mores. His frescoes are devoted to the city and country laborer, miner, country school teacher, market place, burial, festival, harvest, battle. Satirically bent, he has depicted a dinner table group including John Davison Rockefeller, John Pierpont Morgan and Henry Ford. Ticker tape winds among the wine glasses. There is a radio loud speaker, a steel safe door, a lamp shaped like the Statue of Liberty, an artificial female in a backless gown. But satire is a rarity with Artist Rivera. Most...
...worked on his biography over a period of six years. It has the best of material (perhaps too much), a brilliant style (now and then a polish with obvious labor in it). He demonstrates that the "psycho-historian" should be "then-minded." In addition to Henry and his immediate group, he gives an enlightening picture of contemporary Europe...
What the Jury Was Not Told. Judge Burrows refused to allow the defense to call any of a large group of witnesses who were at hand to testify as to the reasons why the Medical Review of Reviews had first published the article, or why the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A., churches, Union Theological Seminary, and various social organizations had distributed thousands of copies of The Sex Side of Life during the past ten years...
...populated entirely by two classes of inhabitants, neither of which is at all inclined to be appreciative of his efforts to provide them with such stray bits of enlightment as may still be found after the beginning of the Reading Period. On the one side there is a harried group who mutter something about "Divisionals" and hurry back to their books. At the other extreme are those whose academic engagements have been reduced to a minimum and who do not even look up from their road-maps and time-tables at the Vagabond's approach. Persona non grata...