Word: seeings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year later when Pavlowa returned to Indianapolis, Ruth was taken to see her, did a toe-dance of her own composition. Pavlowa saw talent and beauty of face and body. She spoke encouragingly, advised Mrs. Page to take Ruth to Chicago to study during the summer with the Pavlowa Ballet. There followed further study in Manhattan under Adolph Bolm while the necessary general education was attended to at a suitable school for girls. Then in 1918, while Dr. Page and a son were with the A. E. F. in France, Ruth met quite by accident Victor D'Andre, husband...
...rock crash through his car's window. Undergraduates swarmed about him, stopped his car, booed and jeered they knew not whom. Gravely Governor Larson got out, examined the shattered window, learned that the rioting students had just come from Cane Spree.* Goodnaturedly the Governor drove on, not waiting to see the students try to undress a besieged policeman...
...transportation and industrial situation in central and northern California an opportunity to carry on a constructive work which would be of real value to the country, through the strengthening and expansion of the Western Pacific. Having come to this conclusion, I bought control of the Western Pacific. . . . I see in northern California an opportunity to play my part in the constructive development of a great region...
Last week friends of the artist were permitted to see in Manhattan nine of a series of ten new murals by Boardman Robinson for department-store tycoon Edgar Kaufmann of Pittsburgh...
Blindness Defined. Fixing on a definition of blindness was a difficulty. The U. S. definition is "inability to see well enough to read even with the aid of glasses," or for illiterates "inability to distinguish forms and objects with sufficient distinctness." The Society prefers the British legal description: "too blind to be able to read the ordinary school books used by children," and "unable to perform any work for which eyesight is essential." A one-eyed person is not blind technically. Nor is the usual near-sighted person...