Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...outside States New York contributes 59 members, New Hampshire 37, Rhode Island 36, Maine 21, Connecticut 20, California 24, Illinois 14, Minnesota 9, Michigan 8, Colorado 7, Missouri and Vermont 6 each, District of Columbia and Pennsylvania 5 each, and almost every state is represented by a lesser number...
...they are not antagonists, but by their points of disparity, of likeness, or contrast, they can be best understood, perhaps understood only through each other. The scholar must have them both, but may not he who has not leisure to be a scholar find profit even in the lesser of the two, if that only...
tainable? Have I admitted that one is the lesser? O matre pulchra filia pulchrior is perhaps what I should say here...
...report then takes up the lesser departments in order of importance, and shows the increase in the numbers of each, and the principal changes which have occurred in these schools during the year...
...pleasing arrangement upon canvas of the details of a picture. This is the most important art in painting, and fixes the talent of the artist. There is but one law which governs the whole subject of composition, and that is the law of relation of the greater and lesser masses in a picture. The eye is first attracted by the greatest contrast, the greatest dark against the greatest light or vice versa, and then seeks another contrast more moderate in tone, and so on until the story of the painting is told. If this law is not strictly observed...