Word: origin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter signed "The Printer Himself" published in the New York Herald Tribune last week, oldtime Printer Dowden, now living in Los Angeles, gave the foregoing version of the origin of the Republican party's nickname. He concluded: "The audience roared but Blaine never smiled. That settled it right there and 'Gop' held its own for a long time. Then fussy proofreaders got to decorating it with periods and it finally evolved into...
...drawings from the Platt collection are of early modern and late modern origin, and are from the Italian, French, English, and German schools. Among the more important works in the exhibition are "Nude Studies" by Tintoretto, from the De Nicolo collection; "Death of the Baptist", "Rent on the Flight", "Landscape", and "A Hermit, Reading", all by Guercino; drawings for ceiling decorations by Tiepolo; "Head" by Piazetta, and "Nude Studies", by Degas. "Le Vieux Charron", "Nude" by Rodin, "Angel with a Trumpet" by Blake; and a "Study of an Indian Girl" by Kolbe...
...both have had to meet keen foreign competition from Holland and France, and face abnormal mortality among our oysters owing to disease, the origin and cause of which remain obscure. It has been my experience that the slipper limpet is the worst enemy preying on my oysters and I understand that 4,000 tons of these pests have been removed from the River Colne in the past five years...
...terse exposition of the origin of trade, one would-be historian wrote, "Now as the sublime ignorance of feudal days were off, and oriental commodities began to seep in, the inhabitants began to trade their furniture etc. for tea and silks. Hence the beginning of trade...
...such treatment but as far as possible divisions have been made into Antiquity, Medieval, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. All books in History, Literature, Philosophy, and so forth which, by virtue of a historical rather than theoretical treatment of a subject of by virtue of date of origin, are associated primarily with a period in history are arranged in this fashion. The object of the plan is to enable the student in one field to visualize all the aspects of the period he is studying...