Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will want to carry back to your country, also, impressions of the republic of the United States of America, and in after years they may be as significant to you as your life in this republic of letters. I hope you will improve every opportunity to study and reflect upon America. Its size will baffle you, perhaps, and I am sure you will want to suspend your judgments until you have had some experience with American life, if possible in other parts of America. It is not an easy task for any of us to get accurate and adequate impressions...
...imitation. The cracks across a Michaelangelo fresco were so perfectly reproduced by the lines across the facsimile, that, until inspected from a distance of less than six inches, it seemed possible to trace them with an inserted fingernail. In actual finish, the facsimiles are smooth; although they catch and reflect light with the warm lustre of oil paints or the glitter of watercolors they do not reproduce roughnesses of brushwork. But such roughnesses leave tiny shadows against each other; for the eye, this is the only evidence of their presence. These tiny shadows are duplicated in Belvedere facsimiles...
...remained away from the caucus yesterday, repudiated the Alabaman by unanimous support of his opponent Robinson. And if the fathers of this country are turning in their graves because a senator in Congress questioned the right of a man to be president because of religious belief, they may reflect that Hefflin is no typical senator, even if such heated squabbles in Congress over party issues have historical precedent. Nor are the man's allegations concerning the Mexican plot more than the chimerae of one who sees priests behind trees, seditious sermons in running brooks, and Jesuit plots in everything...
...turkey for Thanksgiving," said Amy Garvey, "but if I can reflect on having my husband back, that will be much better than choice viands...
...police reflect the will of the administration...