Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...events of 1926 were in the minds of scientific gentlemen who thronged, about 1,000 strong, in 15 sections and 43 allied societies, to Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. There their retiring president, Professor Michael Idvorsky Pupin, onetime Serbian shepherd, now oft-honored electro-physicist of Columbia University, greeted them with poetic discourse upon the progress of electrical communication, beginning with James Clerk Maxwell's monograph on magnetism in 1873 and Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's experiments with pulsations in the ether in 1889, through Marconi's practical application of Hertz's discoveries, to modern radio and radiotelephony. Himself the author of great...
English 80, a new course dealing with Pope and the Poetic Tradition of his Century, will be offered by the English Department of the University beginning with the second-half year...
...Japanese ordinarily refer to the Emperor as Tenno (Heavenly King) or Tenshi (Son of Heaven) and speak of him as Kotei (a Chinese title meaning Emperor) in discussing his relation to non-Japanese affairs. Only foreigners employ in conversation the poetic title Mikado...
...Poetic Scenario...
...felt, as it was in Poet Heyward's other story, Porgy (1925), about a purple-black beggar of Charleston. He has let the beauty of his new locale run away with him. What he should have written was an idyl. What he has written is a poetic scenario...