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Word: representating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week President Frank said there would be some 120 students (men), housed with their faculty under one roof. They plan to study civilizations for two years, then to undertake the usual general or professional college courses leading to degrees. "The gist of the course of study in the Experimental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Amherst's Presidency | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

"My purpose is to represent my country to Canada, and at the same time I hope to get an insight into your attitude toward the empire. I've got a strenuous tour ahead of me. What we in Europe value most in the New World is that sense of hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Empire Tour | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

The nine granaries have a storage capacity of 17,000,000 bushels and represent 46% of the total grain storage space in the neighborhood of Chicago.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Granaries | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

The six stalwarts take their sport with some seriousness. Twenty thousand pounds were contributed by Indian Rajahs, princes, potentates to send these athletes to the U. S. and equip them with a string of 45 international mounts. They travel as a unit, not, as in former years, a group of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: From Hurlingham | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...antiquity" (since ancient Greek paintings were not rediscovered then, as were ancient. Greek sculpture and criticism) as a quickening self-consciousness on the part of the individual artist, accompanied by zeal for personal inspection of realities as they appeared to him. The result was a beginning of three dimensional representation on two dimensional canvas; depiction of sky, land, water; desire for self-immortalization in portraiture and self-propulsion in art, as opposed to slavish dogmatism in conception and execution. For such reasons, then, art lovers regard the quartocento and quintocento painters with the same veneration that philosophers accord Socrates, Plato...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Benson Collection Sold | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

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