Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thus the oldest man yet talked about for President...
...York Symphony is next oldest to the New York Philharmonic in the U. S. It has introduced to the U. S. such famed composers as Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Elgar, Rimsky-Korsakov; introduced such artists as Paderewski, Kreisler, Saint-Saens, Sarasate, Lilli Lehmann and Hans von Bulow. It has toured some 400,000 miles, played to 8,000,000. Harry Harkness Flagler is the sole guarantor...
...well, he knows the hang of the hair of the coils and plaits on a woman's head, he knows them so far back he knows where they came from and where they are going; he is fathoming down for the secrets of the first and the oldest makers of shapes...
...Academy of Arts and Sciences is a national organization and not a Harvard one as the above list would lead one to suppose. It is the oldest scientific society in the country, having been founded at Boston in 1780 chiefly through the efforts of John Adams 1755, later President of the United States. Its purpose was and is to "cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance interest, dignity, honor, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people...
...amaze the reader with its culture" he is making a low bow in the direction of the stables of Pegasus. The insinuation, obviously enough is to the effect that in spite of Rockwell Kent and a highly developed aesthetic complex the Hound and Horn has yet to surpass the oldest of college publications...