Word: kents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sure to hit popular taste amidships was World-Famous Paintings, based on questionnaires to 31,000 Wise customers asking for their favorite paintings. For $2.95 the reader got the 100 most popular choices in color, a running-fire commentary by Artist Rockwell Kent. Unprecedentedly huge was the first edition of 300,000 copies. With 220,000 of them sold already, Wise & Co. planned another printing of 250,000 in January...
...casein) to make the coated paper on which it is printed. Some of its time-tried favorites: The Last Supper, Mona Lisa, The Birth of Venus, The Laughing Cavalier, Shoeing the Baby Mare, The Angelus, Mrs. Siddons, The Music Lesson, The Blue Boy, Whistler's Mother. Editor Kent was allowed no say in deciding which pictures were to be used. Says he: "Had the selection of pictures been left to me it would have come to include many that are now in the volume. And with what vindictive fury would it have excluded others!" But even readers who sympathize...
Other lettermen returning from the squad which finished fourth in the Eastern Intercollegiate League standings include Maurice Poitras, Kent and Steve Stavers, all distance men, and Berndt Lindgren, a sprinter. Outstanding Sophomore is Jack Brown, equally well at home in any free-style event, at the back, and the breast stroke. Other promising second-year men are Gunner Ohberg and Aiden Wood, sprinters, and Joe McKinley, a diver...
Hunt Hamill '40, undertakes the leading male role, of Ronnie, a happy-go-lucky member of cafe society. Playing opposite him is Miss Reta Hurley, a graduate of the Bishop Lee School, who will portray a New York glamor girl. Leonard Kent '43, as the stolid and dependable Henry, Guy Clements '40, and Miss Agnes Love, Radcliffe '34, fill the remaining important parts. Henry Urrows '38 directs the Dramatic Club's latest production...
...Germany continued the more aggressive. Last fortnight one of her reconnaissance planes appeared for the first time over Britain's industrial Midlands, flying low and streaking away from anti-aircraft and pursuit after traversing Manchester (textiles), Merseyside (ship-building), and North Wales (coal). Last week more Nazis penetrated Kent and Essex, passing close to London, some of them apparently to divert attention from mine-laying seaplanes at the mouth of the Thames. Repeated reconnaissance in the North culminated with a concentrated bomber flight which descended upon a detachment of the British Home Fleet somewhere near the Shetland Islands...