Word: regard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make the layman articulate in church affairs, was founded on the belief that "there is much to be gained in the realm of religious progress by free discussion among religious leaders of all denominations of the common problems that confront them. The perils that face Christianity have no regard for denominational lines. The problems that most vitally confront Christians are nonsectarian...
Sirs: For some months I have been working on a plan for the handling of Life Subscriptions to magazines. I have developed a plan that is absolutely scientific in its operation, that is equitable and salable to the individual and that is greatly beneficial to the magazine in regard to stabilizing its circulation...
...Indy would have none of it. Sternly he spoke: "I am 78 years old?it is really a little late to think of me." The next choice, Composer Paul Dukas, protested that the Institut was making fun of him. So, finally, the Institut turned to the man whom many regard as, next to Pole Paderewski the greatest French composer?Maurice Ravel...
...regard to the question you ask as to the John Sargent's War pictures in the Harvard Library, my recollection is that they are in a style and in a vehicle rather more suited to the magazine cover and to the poster than to a university library. And as to their sentiment,--perhaps they do recall the fierce antagonism of the great war. Nevertheless I do not favor removing them. The habit of pulling down monuments has in it something of the childish. Why not let the decorations stand for what they are worth and for the epoch they record...
Under these circumstances the exercise attained a prominence proportional to the importance of those who spoke there, and the Auditorium of Sanders Theatre was invariably crowded. The demands of other activities of graduation for more attention have in recent years caused some difficulty in regard to the date of the affair. The use of Friday of Commencement Week has been found to be impractical, for the competition of the crew races that day is strong, and the fact that Commencement and all its ceremonies are past has tended to make the day something of an anticlimax, although the quality...