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Word: reale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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That fact is not very startling, but the time is important, for it has occasioned the shifting of Harvard's first football rally in 13 years from outside the Dillon Field House to inside Briggs Cage. It was generally felt that the Tigers will have to take a real taming tomorrow and hence should not have to take a moral taming today...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Rally Changed to Briggs Cage; Tiger Team Takes to Stadium | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

...uniform, however, for the Germans almost without exception are unusual draftsmen. The use of light and shadow in works such as the nudes of Georg Kolbe and Lismann brings out solid forms with fine clarity. The sharp delineation of line in etchings, woodcuts, and pen sketches creates lively real results...

Author: By H. M. C. jr., | Title: Collections & Critiques | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

...employs color to express his emotions, and without the violent reds and contrasting blues, greens, and yellows, the picture would lack its forceful meaning. This war picture has, however, the necessary form in which Zerbe is so deficient. Grosz seems to round out his color scheme and to give real modeling to the figures. It is he who provides the answer to the question as to the value of such painters, for there are few if any artists producing today who have such life, feeling, and meaning...

Author: By H. M. C. jr., | Title: Collections & Critiques | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

Another factor, be feels, "is the extent to which it has been possible to set up a real industrial base in Szochuan, sufficient to supply some sort of army in the field. This is naturally linked with other unanswered items such as the condition of the land supply routes from Western China to Russia and to Burma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank-- | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

...finally takes place, turns out to be an anticlimax. It is, therefore, not from the number of events that the book derives its absorbing interest, but from the way they are described and integrated. Mrs. Lindbergh keenly singles out the small but unusual details that make the story unmistakably real: "The were newspapers on the floor, French ones, old and yellowing, gritty with dust, their emphatic black headlines staring up at the ceiling as they had been staring ever since the old chief had left them there." Yet these are more than mere details, they all add something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 10/26/1938 | See Source »

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