Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Macdonald will get some much-needed contact work this Saturday, but at present there are no changes contemplated in the varsity backfield. Torbie and Charley Spreyer will alternate at tailback. Should the Crimson captain prove that he is ready to play the major portion of a game, changes may be in order. With Macdonald and Spreyer in the game at the same time, Harvard would present its strongest and most dangerous attack...
...have never heard of Whistler's Father have remarked that this 400-mile line is one of the straightest on earth. According to legend, the Tsar so ordered it by ruling a line on the map. According to Parry, Major Whistler's skill and economy had much to do with it. A firm Irish Yankee, he was amazed to find Russian engineers behaving like poets, actors, priests and revolutionaries (Dostoevsky graduated from the Imperial Engineering School in 1843). He proudly refused a commission in the Tsar's army, refused to say "Your Majesty" to Nicholas. Nicholas found...
...Houghton Mifflin, who published a much-abridged edition in 1933, arranged for publication of the complete edition by Reynal & Hitchcock...
...sketches, which continue the story in this rather laughable fashion, exhibit strong powers of social satire and characterization. Though Ober-laender lacks much that can be found in Daumier, this small sample of his work is convincing enough to make anyone who sees it want to see more. Humor in art presents difficulties which are not easy to surmount. A ludicrous subject, if not sufficiently restrained by means of proper emphasis upon style and technique will perhaps draw a short but hearty laugh from an onlooker. The same subject performed in a subtle fashion will cause a series of chuckles...
...Macmillan Company, is subtitled "An Economic Theory About Our Golden Age." The theory is chiefly that American farmers made their profits, while they made them, from the increase in land values rather than from farming itself, but White deals with the culture and ideals of the West as much as with economic theory...