Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Needles click and inches of skirt or sweater grow under flying fingers, as Radcliffe goes yarn-minded. They are to be seen everywhere, these knitters, whisking their work out of roomy chintz bags, on the steps of Agasaiz, in the Writing room or Lunch room, even in the library with their eyes glued to a book as they knit, and possibly even as to whisper it in the back row at a ecture...
...pale young people who drink sherry at little tables and decide the latest vogues in art were all finished with surrealism years ago. Surrealism may be described as painting the facts of dreams. Example: A little man with a head on which cabbages grow, carrying a huge spoon across a rocky mountain, all painted in meticulous mid-Victorian detail. Month ago a U.S. surrealist named Peter Blume won first prize ($1,500) at the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh with his South of Scranton (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week a still abler Parisian surrealist named Salvador Dali arrived in Manhattan...
...existence of a History and Literature Department is eminently desirable, for history is a record of the deeds of men, just as literature is of their thoughts and emotions. Deeds are not intelligible without an understanding of the mental conditions from which they grow while literature, on the other hand, cannot be separated from the social conditions in which it arises. This very justification of the Department shows that there is need for definite courses in the field...
...Roeeaeeio." The Duke and Duchess, hunting in the glade nearby, had been abusing her cruelly, for they pinched her if she danced ". . . they, good people, knew not what pleasure meant." The scholar felt himself drawn to this tender young flower of learning, and he watched her as she grow up in the court of Edward VI. At fifteen, she had mastered Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, and French. She could embroider, and she was passing fair...
...most rigorously enforced prohibition against intoxicating beverages, and so West Point's drinking was confined to the cadets' supporters, friends, and old grads. The Army's future officers may not be supposed to touch the stuff, but their allies practically make up for their teetotalism. 'West Pointers grow into real...