Word: intently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disquieting elements in his work which for a long time baffled and disturbed the public of America. . . . They misunderstood, if they did not mistrust, an eroticism so exquisite and distinguished. Better Renoir and Matisse, they thought, and the more primary Freudian reactions of such masters than a painter so intent on capturing and passing on to us the heat, the fever, almost the libido, of a colored fabric, a seated girl or a garden flower...
...course as a whole, leaving certain special topics for investigation or further development during the Reading Period." The regular assignments in History 5a carry the student up to 1828. The period between this and 1840 is left for the reading period. Such a disregard for the clear and unmistakeable intent of the recommendation shows very little of the spirit of cooperation...
...this intent the U. S. has its American Society for the Control of Cancer (founded 1913). The League of Nations has a Cancer Commission under its Health Organization. Great Britain has a Cancer Committee of its Ministry of Health. The British Empire has a Cancer Campaign. There are an Association Française pour I'Etude du Cancer, a Komite fur Krebs-forschung, and similar bodies in Japan, Belgium, The Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland. Besides teaching public and profession to recognize Cancer, these organizations also promote Cancer research...
Between Messrs. Russell & King and Secretary Bonner had long raged a war of power policy. Solicitor Russell was intent upon squeezing what he claimed was "water" from the capitalization of private power companies. No less zealous was Accountant King in making them toe the financial mark. The complaints of these two against Secretary Bonner and their disclosures of the old Commission's methods before the Senate Interstate Commerce Commission were largely responsible for subsequent legislation to reorganize the Federal Power Commission on a full-time non-Cabinet basis (TIME, March 10). The discharge of Messrs. Russell and King, stirred...
...credits in London last week almost equalled the gold reserve of the Bank of England, that the Old Lady must be ready to meet any sudden French demand, that she faces moreover two major Empire monetary problems: 1) Chancellor of the Exchequer Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden's reputed intent to convert a huge part of the $48,000,000,000 British 5% War bonds now outstanding, paying off the holders with the proceeds of a loan floated on current "cheap money" at a lower rate of interest; and 2) the imminent need in Australia for at least...