Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nature-thus he chose not to enter Canaan knowing that it was the promised land only as long as it remained a promise. (The Bible claims, on the contrary, that Jehovah forbade him enter because he had sinned with a foreign light of love.) Untermeyer notes radical differences between Joshua's matter-of-fact record, and Nath's beautified narrative: Joshua itemizes the miraculous God-sent path through the Red Sea as matter of calculated tides and wind...
...Joshua Reynolds flattered 18th century women with his graceful, glimmering brushwork. But when he painted self-portraits, which he did at least 45 times, he exercised all the artistic honesty that Rus- kin could have wished. One of the last of his self-portraits has been acquired by the Ferargil Galleries. The stately, long-nosed Sir Joshua wears the rickety spectacles that were harbingers of his pitifully failing eyesight. For him, shining satins would not much longer shine. Shortly after completing this prophetic portrait he made a stoically doleful remark. "All things have an end," he said, "and I have...
Just before Secretary Kellogg departed, his Department made the long-expected announcement of Joshua Reuben Clark's appointment as Under Secretary of State, to succeed Robert Edwin Olds, who resigned two months ago. An international lawyer from Utah, 57, Mr. Clark's specialty has lately been Mexico. He sat on the Mixed Claims Commission in Mexico City two years ago. Last year he was Ambassador Morrow's chief legal aide...
Died. Eugene Levering, 82, onetime (1878-1921) president of the National Bank of Commerce (Baltimore), and after its merger with the Merchants National Bank, chairman of the board, trustee and patron of the Johns Hopkins University, ofttime contributor to the Anti-Saloon League; in Baltimore. His twin brother, Joshua Levering, was the Prohibition party's nominee for the presidency...
...elected to the Academy were members of the University. The fellows of the Academy at the University just elected are: Professor Walter Fenno Dearborn, director of the Psycho-Educational Clinic: Professor Ralph Barton Perry of the Philosophy Department: Professor Henry Bradford Washburn '91, professor of Church History; Assistant Professor Joshua Whatmough: Assistant Professor James Phinney Baxter III: Assistant Professor Arthur Harrison Cole: Assistant Professor William Yandell Elliott: Professor Clarence Henry Har- ing '07; Professor Warren Milton Persons; and Professor Arthur Meler Schlesinger...