Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bartlett pointed out that although chemical equations show components and results, they do not actually reveal the nature of the process involved. His accomplishments will indirectly help other chemists to solve problems in organic chemistry...
...general, necessitate advisers. They are a foundation of the desired program for individualized education and their goal is first ascertaining the student's ability and knowledge and then helping him to use them. Their function is not nursemaid nor solely friend, but guide in all academic matters. To show him how to study, to interest him in the University life, to direct him toward a field of concentration; these the advisers should be expected to do. For the emotionally maladjusted they cannot be directly responsible, but when such cases arise they must at once inform Dean Leighton, who should make...
...display is to show how the horse as an art form was treated in widely varying ways in the East from the Han period and in the West from early classical days down to the present day. In the Eastern group the works are predominantly statues, although there are also numerous tapestries, parchment drawings, and minute carvings on ivory. The objects are for the most part unnaturalistic and in all sorts of grotesque forms, reflecting the ideas of primitive...
What these inhabitants look like, what their share of the U. S. has become, is recorded with indelible indifference by the heartbreaking or horrifying photographs in Land of the Free. They show piercingly characteristic, dead-beat scenes from all over the U. S., with a heavy preponderance from below the Mason-Dixon line. Consequently some may feel that Poet MacLeish's selection doesn't fight fair with All-American self-gratulation, that too many of its blows land below the Bible-belt. Most people, however, will agree that these superbly taken, brilliantly presented photographs are the most excoriating...
...Empire State Building headquarters, this controversy made no further news until last week. Then, in a magnanimous backtrak, President Grover Whalen of the Fair Corporation announced plans for a great exhibition of contemporary U.S. art, to be housed in a $300,000 building once intended for a show of "arts in production." The distinguished chairman of the governing committee is President A. (for Anson) Conger Goodyear of the Museum of Modern Art; the distinguished director is scholarly, roly-poly Holger Cahil, longtime director of the WPA Federal Art project. Manhattanites, appeased, looked forward to a fairer fair...