Word: returning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blacksmith is Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, a personage well able to return with interest the lightning of Cardinal Gasparri's glance. Unquestionably these two sons of peasants are the greatest Italian statesmen of their century. They met face to face, last week, in the Lateran Palace, an austere and gloomy pile, presented to the papacy 16 centuries ago by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. Successive pontiffs resided in the Lateran until removal of the papal residence to Avignon (1309 A.D.). It contains the Sanctum Sanctorum, Chapel, "Mother Church of Christen-dom"; reached by a'flight of steps...
...Viola Austman Fokker, 29, of Manhattan, Danish wife of the famed Dutch aircraft builder Anthony H. G. Fokker; by a 15-floor fall from her apartment window; in Manhattan. Mrs. Fokker had spent weeks in a hospital with a nervous breakdown. Her death occurred on the evening of her return, while her husband dozed. Grief-stricken, he had to be restrained from leaping after...
Defense. Sir Joseph volleyed in return. He defined an expert as "a man who knows pictures and can tell a copy from an original." Of the Lardoux painting he said: "The neck is a clumsy cylinder of flesh . . . there are unnatural plates of flesh . . . faulty construction, faulty anatomy." He pointed to "poor" shadows, an off-perspective eye, awkward drawing. He defined technique as the "handwriting" of an artist whereby a "friend" can always recognize his work. Leonardo, he felt, could never have been a botchy anatomist, nor did the picture reveal his technique...
...Yale News has recently published an editorial advising the undergraduate who wishes to lead an outdoor life to go to Labrador with the Crenfell Mission to play Good Samaritan to God's frozen children. The laudable, or lamentable tendencies of Labrador missionaries in the past has been to return happily married to one no more, certainly--of the missionary nurses. Since the career of an undergraduate at Yale automatically ends at the altar rail, this place of advice may prove like the boomerang which circles back to decapitate its thrower. If the Yale student returns unmarried, the chances...
With his questioning of the modern mechanistic trend of our higher education Dr. Muzzey has added his voice to the already appalling number of educators who advocate either directly or by implication, as Dr. Muzzey does, that we should return to the educational method used a century ago. Such criticism has brought to the fore a controversy as old as education itself...