Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since that time, due to their beauty and their scarcity, Vermeers have brought large prices from dealers. The 200-year period in which no attention was paid them has naturally caused arguments to arise as to the authenticity of some. Hitherto, the Johnson Guitar Player has been unanimously regarded as genuine. It is still so regarded by many able American collectors & connoisseurs...
...What?" he roared. "I can't? If you are sitting on this imitationleather lounge one reading period, plus a Christmas vacation spent with textbooks, from today, I shall walk up to you with a message from my tutor. No one can say that, because others have failed, I cannot bridge the Chasm that separates us from our loved ones...
Although Freshmen athletic activities have been eliminated during the midyear examination period, the boxing room will be open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 4 until 6 o'clock...
...proof of the pudding lies in the eating--and with the digestion. For the past two and a half weeks Harvard College has been busied with an intellectual pudding, the success of which will be inspected for the next three weeks. The first "Reading Period" ever tried in an American University came to a close yesterday; beginning this morning, the results of that Reading Period will be put to test...
...College faculty has erred in the initial presentation of this Period--and the possibility seems likely--it has erred on what is probably the right side. Rather than expect too little it has, in many cases, expected too much. Reading assignments have been large; on the whole, if one is to believe current reports, they have been too large. No time has been left for that individual grazing in the fields of learning which was one of the hoped for consequences of the plan. The books read have been required; the student in this experiment has been as dependent...