Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book-designing is a recent development in printing. The first Eng- lish printed books by Caxton had for type the Flemish script which was perhaps the ugliest of all forms of writing. This evil influence dominates the whole of English printing for the greater part of the nineteenth century, and is not yet extinct...
...beauty of a printed book, plain or decorated, depends on a number of considerations, of which the design of the type is perhaps the most important. It is no exaggeration to say that in no printed book between the closing years of the fifteenth century and those of the nineteenth was any attempt made to obtain them...
Those pessimists who argue that the effects of the Nineteenth Amendment are all and that the woman voter is a nonentity in so far as the government of the nation is concerned will have to reconcile themselves to Count Hermann Keyserling's emphatic antithetical views on the subject. For the Esthonian philospher, in advancing not only the opinion that America is governed by the feminine sex but that America's problem is "the emancipation of men, rather than the emancipation of women," presents an European point of view which the anxious male cannot entirely disregard...
...nineteenth century Europe had begun to expect a more reasonable, not to say more Christian attitude on the part of the papacy toward the long established churches which had thrown off papal control and by their history of service and sacrifice had demonstrated that...
...Painting in Italy"; January 23 and 24, "High Renaissance Painting in Italy"; January 30 and 31, "Renaissance Painting in Flanders"; February 6 and 7, "Spanish Sixteenth Century Paintings"; February 13 and 14, "Dutch Seventeenth Century Paintings"; February 20 and 21, "English Eighteenth Century Paintings"; "February 27 and 28, "French Nineteenth Century Paintings...