Word: high
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tried to save the situation with a skillfully improvised finale. Emma herself might have followed the accepted procedure for erring singers: hold a pose and hope for the best. Instead she grimaced, vanished through the curtains. A few seconds later she popped her head out again and emitted a high, piercing, utterly irrelevant note. Amazed, the audience applauded this unique effort as if it had been a complete and flawless song. Critics were kind, blamed only young Emma's sponsors for permitting such a premature appearance...
...pyramid casts the minimum shadow for its cubic capacity. Conversely, an upside-down pyramid would cast the maximum, keeping the lower floors in shade at all times. At high noon the towers would be completely in their own shadows...
...movies gathered for the last few years for the significance of the art exhibited in them. The pictures to be shown are mostly ones made in the period before 1926, just before the beginning of the advent of talkies, at which time the silent drama had reached a high point from an artistic point of view. At the present time Professor Post is adding certain of the talkies of his collections, if they are exceptionally good...
...that such an accusation would inevitably bring into the public eye questions of good sportsmanship and fair play should alone have been enough to deter those in authority from announcing their decision at such an injudicious moment, however much the general effect may be minimized by Exeter's traditionally high reputation...
...concerns a real political union, the consideration of the many race antagonisms, the lingual differences, the varieties of organization, the differences of interest; all these seem to me to make the plan seem to be nothing further than a high conception, not to be carried out definitely until some period in the far distant future. It is only a beautiful ideal towards which the world can progress; for the tremendous difficulties, cultural, religious, and historical, seem too great to be overcome during the present...