Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novel have adequate material to work with. Another considerable sum was devoted to building up the works of Fielding; and further sums were spent on editions of Byron, making the Library's collection of that writer really in the first rank. A few English plays of the seventeenth century have been bought to help round out the White collection. Various single and rare volumes, picked up from time to time, render more complete the collections of certain authors that are already exceptionally well represented in the Library,--for example,--Donne (including a valuable manuscript), Dryden, Swift, Pope, Gay, and Gray...
According to information given out by the museum, the exhibition represents all the principal tendencies in French painting during the Eighteenth Century. A portrait group by Largilliere depicts the change from the Seventeenth Century, and the type of work done during the reign of Louis XIV to the emancipated and freed spirit of the time of his grandson, Louis XV. The court painting of the beginning of the Seventeenth Century is represented in its chief examples by the two pictures by Wateau; several examples of the different styles of Fragonard, still life pictures by Chardin, and a group of contemporary...
...Raphael, for the publication of a Rumanian Grammar and Chrestomathy; Professor George B. Weston, to aid in the preparation for publication of a two-volume collection of Italian Satirists of the Seventeenth Century: Dean A. F. Whittem, for consulting, in France and Spain, works of certain French and Spanish fabulists, or material concerning them; Assistant Dean G. K. Zipf. for the publication of results of investigation of Pekingese Chinese, and for further work in obtaining data for an article on Syntax and Semantic Change and a contemplated volume on the relativity of human speech...
...Paris. They took off again for the Azores, flew into a high wind over heavy seas, were not again seen or heard from. A few optimists clung to the ephemeral hope that the flyers were alive on one of the outlying Azores. But cold reason labelled the Tradewind the seventeenth transatlantic plane to be lost since 1927; the pilots the 30th and 31st; Mrs. Hart the fourth woman...
...billiards that smalltown sports play in their dreams. Greenleaf won the bank with a perfect shot. His ball was flat against the rail. Then Rudolph broke cleanly, without leaving Greenleaf a shot, but as they kept on it looked more and more like Greenleaf's evening. By the seventeenth inning he had 118, 45 balls ahead of Rudolph. There were seven balls on the table - exactly the number Greenleaf needed to win, but he missed a long one. Rudolph made a run of 14, another of 23, won the match, the championship...