Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mellow toned with a richness in quality in spite of the limited palette. From a difffferent point of view an experimental note can be found in the water colors of grave yard scenes. Though color is generally interesting to associate it with grave stone is uncommon. The same idea is to be found in one of two decorative pictures, painted to harmonize with a specific room...
...work of Rodriquez has been highly commended by C. L. Brock, superintendent of the Houston public park department. Brock states, "It is impossible to convey with words an adequate idea of the perfection of the work of Rodriquez. It is the coloring which makes his reproductions truly remarkable. He uses no forms, but fashions every piece of bark, and makes every weather check by hand before the surface cement has hardened. His color process is secret...
This is not a new idea, this blurred boarder line between the dreamer and the daft. As thus discussed it is sometimes ingeniously interesting. Glen Hunter is the star. Patricia O'Hearn is startlingly good as the yammering wife. The title is from Genesis...
Dean West's great achievement at Princeton was his founding the graduate school there in 1901. AS he wrote to Princeton trustees: "It was the policy of the university from the start to abandon the idea of a great number of graduate students and to plan the entire work on the basis of quality rather than quantity. ... A company of picked graduate students of moderate number and high scholarly promise was what was necessary in order that Princeton should make a really distinguished contribution to the higher teaching and scholarship of our country...
...judge devised another vehicle of cooperation. If all iron and steel men would not truckle to Mr. Morgan's idea of a single steel corporation for the U. S., they might truck with him. In 1909 the judge organized the American Iron & Steel Institute where all rivals could meet on unrestricted terms to discuss common problems and follow similar programs, notably as to the costs and sale of steel. The judge was until his death its first and only president...