Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America, an Epic Rhapsody in Three Parts", written by Ernest Block is the feature number of the evening. This symphony won the prize of $3000 offered three years ago by the weekly journal. Musical America, for an orchestral piece of symphonic dimensions, that was to be "a really representative work, one which will be to American music what the standard German, French, and Russian works for orchestra are to the music of their countries...
...number of their cut-ins and their clippings from the press...
...publication of the new regulations of the Committee on Admissions raises two questions which may definitely affect the future of Harvard College. With the first and third of the new rules few will quarrel. The number of men who have partially failed in their first year at Harvard and the obvious discrepancies of standards in secondary schools are sufficient recommendation for them. There will be little weeping over the final passing of the September examinations, which difficult of administration and unsatisfactory results had made a bugbear to examiners and candidates...
...from the double point of view of philology and a archaeology. In the Western part of Chinese Turkestan, at a place which was supposed to be a late Mohammedan shrine, I have found the ruins of a Buddhist temple of about 500 A. D. and collected there quite a number of clay figures, turned to a sort of a terra-cotta when fire was set to the temple and which show unmistakable signs of hellenistic influence. From another temple of the eighth century come many Sanskrit and Tokharian manuscripts, and also figures carved in wood, including the oldest woodblock extant...
...cave containing the manuscripts. I saw that most of them were still there. Of the 15000 scrolls, documents, paintings, Sir Aurel Stein had only been able to acquire about one fourth, and, being an Indian and not a Chinese scholar, had had to be content with buying a certain number of bundles without making an examination of the rest. I then squatted in the cave and in the course of two weeks, all the manuscripts passed through my hands, about one thousand a day. Finally, I bought all of them which were of some interest, in Chinese in Sanskrit...