Word: indebtednesses
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"Even when we use the electronic calculator we are indebted to the long-forgotten Eastern merchant who first adapted number signs to the layout of the abacus. His predecessor, the temple scribe who gave each pebble a number value ten times as great when moved one groove to the left...
Jockstraws in the Sky. Sweeney does suggest that U.S. painters are less conscious of tradition than the European and are apt to experiment more. He finds a surprising degree of Oriental influence in American art and a lot of new life among the West Coast painters. A standout illustration of...
The play, with its writers and actors, has to do with temperament and ego and vanity, and again with irresponsibility and self-indulgence, disappointment and regret-with the minor-key emotions of which Chekhov was already a master. For Chekhov did find himself in The Sea Gull, while still owing...
Having just completed a trying reading of the commentary accompanying the pictures in this year's Radcliffe Freshman Register we cannot help but choke back a feeling of disgust. Undoubtedly sundry Square merchants are deeply indebted, in view of the subtle plugs for their respective products. We will even venture...
Many of the best brains of the last two centuries have felt indebted to the knowledge-lined old institution in London where the British have assembled what is probably the world's most comprehensive collection of information. There Gibbon and Macaulay did their historical research, Boswell perfected the technique...