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Word: rythm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Freshmen, of course, will learn a more simplified version and will discover the manly art of saying just enough. Upperclassmen will be encouraged to give free rein to the oarsmen and to check them up when frenzy conquers rythm. Although the complete course is not known, it is rumored that a complete day will be devoted to the perfection of making a graceful are when tossed into the water by a winning crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prospective Coxswains to Gain Steersman's Lingo Seasoned With Billinsgate--Special Course Given to Aid Vocabulary | 2/16/1929 | See Source »

...change to sculpture has been most cleverly made so that the piece loses none of its decorative effect. The "Study for a Garden Pool" shows far more independence. Here a lady in green bronze sits with easy poise so that the folds of her garments fall in a rythm of clearly defined curves. In the "Japanese Actor" a different tradition causes a different set of rhythms. Here a single motive repeated

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fine Arts Tutor Reviews Exhibition of Allan Clark Sculpture at New Fogg--Finds Oriental Influences | 10/11/1927 | See Source »

...Rythm. Dr. G. P. Bidder extended Sir Arthur's history of mankind back to pelagic times, saying: "We owe our appreciation of dancing, poetry, music and our sense of rhythm to the actions we made when we were only tiny blobs of jelly flagellates, millions of years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Leeds | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

They come with and without "Brummy", "snig", and "sportserapana" form perhaps their prize triumvirate. In the order named, these three compose a trochaic line of no dull rythm, and, corralled into a sentence, they provide salutary exercise for those who have given up Sanskrit. For example: "It's a snig" means, not "Throw that alarm clock out of the window", but, "It is an unseen object of my desire". Those addicted to abstraction have thus a new vehicle of expression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DICTIONEERING | 4/1/1926 | See Source »

Hereafter the name of Lansdowne will be the rythm for a proud measure in the epic of the skies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shenandoah | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

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