Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While it is true that a certain amount of natural decomposition is hard to prevent, it is a well-known fact that such poisonous chemicals as lead arsenate and sulphur dioxide are widely used to preserve fruits, the former to protect apples from the ravages of insects, and the latter in the drying of certain fruits such as apricots and plums. Meat is also treated chemically to preserve its red color. Many may applaud these modern methods of saving money employed by producers and middlemen, and may marvel at the wonders of modern science, but no one would think...
Under this system, the first two years of higher education would be spent in junior colleges, and the latter two universities which would thus drop their freshman and sophomore classes. Recalling the commanding position of New England institutions he asserted that the new plan would effect them also, "whether they like...
...Housemaster" is a gentle brew of sentiment and humor, and the latter ingredient is racy enough to make the play wholly charming. Ian Hay, the author, gives more or less of an autobiography, since he too has been a master in an English boarding school. The title character is the sort of person who flogs his charges for the sake of discipline, and then invites them over for Sunday dinner. He seasons his great portion of kindliness and human understanding with a splendid vein of gruffness and stingless sarcasm. He manages to preserve enough austerity to keep up the discipline...
Until the German dictator came on the scene, he explained, France was in a position both from a political and military point of view to make her will felt. Results of the rapid revitalization in Germany were closely watched in France with the result that the latter came to fix her attention more and more on the Rhine...
...created a musical language of his own, painted tone-pictures of impressions from nature, conceived a whole new palette of instrumental and harmonic colors. Critics, fond of loose similes, called him a symbolist like Poets Mallarme and Verlaine; others called him an impressionist like Painters Renoir and Monet. The latter title stuck. His work-fastidious, poetic, voluptuous and all but perfection in technique-had an immense influence on the composers of the early nineteen hundreds. Besides a picture of an incurable Bohemian, Biographer Thompson offers a systematic critical study of all of his compositions, from the slightest piano piece...