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Word: offerred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the group are views of the villa of Madama at Rome, which was designed by Raphael and two designed by Vignola, the Villa Lante at Viterbo and the Villa Farnese at Caprarola. The pictures, in addition to their purely artistic value as landscapes, offer an unusual opportunity in the study, of the details of Italian landscape architecture of the Renaissance with the typical use of marble pools, statuary, cypresses, and garden terraces, together with the employment of the mural niche, an adaptation of which was employed in the construction of the Widener Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXHIBIT PICTURES OF VILLAS | 3/6/1923 | See Source »

...called Republican Government decided to ignore the Free State Government's offer of a general amnesty for all who were in arms against it. It is despite the fact that Liam Deasy, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Republican Army, under sentence of death, appealed to de Valera "to accept unconditionally the terms of this offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Irish Pot-Pourri | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

ROMEO AND JULIET - Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters offer a vitalized Romeo and Juliet. The interpretation is not notable for subtlety or profundity. Careless enthusiasm is its chief charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 3, 1923 | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

Literature is self-expression. It is up to the reader to extract the meaning, not up to the writer to offer it. If the author writes everything that pops into his head-or that is supposed to pop into the head of a given character-that is all that should be asked. Lucidity is no part of the auctorial task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shantih, Shantih, Shantih | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

...they could ever conceive of have fallen under the power of a name. A resurrection not of the spirit, it is true, but certainly the greatest that flesh alone can know. To one of Egypt's lesser kings chance has given fame more widespread than any monument could offer. Perhaps Sir Walter Raleigh was wiser than he knew when he penned the words "O eloquent, just, and mighty Death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY!" | 2/20/1923 | See Source »

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