Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admitting his gratitude "that I know there is a Harvard that belongs to us and our America," the extracurricular American History Counselor for next year still finds it depressing to return to Cambridge and see the new Houses. "So much of Harvard symbolizes what I do not like that it is hard for me to feel strong affection...
...frequently had to sit most of the night while Artist Lewis worked feverishly on his portrait, which shows him looking dark and bitter in a grey-blue suit. When the picture was rejected he wrote to Lewis: "The portrait is one by which I am quite willing posterity should know me. . . . But I am glad to think that a portrait of myself is not to appear in the exhibition of the Royal Academy." Last week black-hatted, black-witted Wyndham Lewis (The Apes of God) turned up as a critic at the Academy's socialite preview and enjoyed himself...
...illuminated test chart first passes through a disk of Polaroid. The person being tested looks through a pair of polarizing lenses, one vertical, one horizontal. By rotating the first disk, the examiner can cut out the vision of either eye at will, so that the subject does not know with which eye he is seeing. It is thus impossible for him, if he is faking an injury in one eye or the other, to give a reading which is consistent with the examiner's manipulations...
...know whether you are reading a lecture there or not," retorted Mr. Lamont. "I have been in business for many years and I have tried to discharge my duties as a citizen...
...prose explanations tend to become almost as obscure as the poems, and generally duller. And they usually conclude, sometimes with a feeling that they may be missing something, but more often with a conviction that they are not, that contemporary poetry is a doubtful contribution to the world they know. John Crowe Ransom's The World's Body is not a primer of poetry, but it contains one of the clearest explanations of the obscurity of contemporary verse which has been written, along with discussions that will whet a reader's appetite for poetry as much...