Word: hollower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glass of Water. About one hundred years ago Parisian society waxed ecstatic over the plays of a romanticist, Augustin Eugene Scribe, whose name is still glamorous to many drama students. Anyone who wishes to learn what ridiculous and hollow charades enthralled Paris of the '305 and '405 may now see the American Laboratory Theatre perform a play of Scribe's in which Queen Anne of England, the Duchess of Marlborough and a simple heroine named Abigail Churchill vie with each other for the favors of a Captain of the Guards. The entanglements are also political. Attired...
...room is a vast hollow of jade, in multi-colors and multitudinous shapes. In another great room are glass cases on glass pedestals. In the cases and placed around the walls are his many-colored rock specimens. They all seem frozen in crystal. Near the ceiling runs a frieze composed of transparencies which show western mountain scenes in colors. Varying illumination behind the transparencies shows how the original scenes change in appearance from dawn to night...
...terra-cotta statuary has been recovered. Between 4000 and 3000 B.C. the Sumerians, a higher type of civilization, gave up burial alive. The diggers also discovered traces of Nebuchadnezzar's restoration work on the temple of Harsgakalemma, and a baby's rattle in the form of a hollow clay hedgehog with a hardened mud marble...
...experience." He described British Cables & Wireless, Ltd. as a "creaking, awkward, ponderous set-up." He said he could wish a business competitor no worse luck, than to be hooked up in such a system, maintained that his com pany and Radio Corp. "hold the British merger in the hollow of their hand...
...department, is still small, but the number of universities which can boast superiority to Harvard in one, two, or three departments is large and growing larger. Great teachers, not fine architecture, are still the prime requisites of a great university. This is no hysterical cry that Harvard is a "hollow shell" of its former educational self, but a plea for constant, earnest effort to improve, enlarge, and maintain the group of men on whose shoulders must chiefly rest the burden of upholding Harvard's name. To no better advantage could the University put Mr. Wyeth's bequest...