Word: reverted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that had been rid of ugly colors and rendered clear blue-white. He showed them diamonds turned in a few days from low-priced jaundiced stones to gems of apparently the first water. How long these stones would stay purified, Dr. Field could not say. But they had not reverted in four years time; perhaps they would never revert. Big Manhattan jewelry houses took notice...
...legal bid. The penalties for bidding eight or more: the offender and his partner are barred from the auction; either opponent may 1) demand a new deal; 2) require the declaration to be played at seven, doubled or undoubted, by the offending side; or 3) direct that the auction revert to the last legitimate declaration "and be continued by his side from that point...
...celebrated are the Shasta daisy, thornless cactus (cattle-fodder), mammoth blackberry, mammoth asparagus, everbearing mammoth artichoke and rhubarb, and the Burbank plum. Perhaps his quaintest anomaly was a plant which grew potatoes below ground, tomatoes above. This and similar freaks he did not submit for commercial growth. They soon revert to type...
...emotions of the stage. The experience of the greatest actors has shown that really sincere emotion has failed to produce a convincing portrayal on the stage. After this evidence it appears logically necessary, in spite of the disappointment to those who believe in progress through the ages to revert to Diderot's paradoxical dogma that art is not nature but nature intensified and sublimated through the medium of the imagination. If our actors can not feel and portray their emotions at the same moment, by all means do away with their feelings: if a man cannot be natural and artistic...
...Yale Graduate School (also Editor of the Yale Review) reminded every one that the original purpose of the graduate school is to equip teachers for the college; he said: "The tendency has been to take over into the graduate school the methods of the undergraduate school. . . . We should revert...