Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Illustrated London News, Sketch, Sphere, Tatter, Men's Wear, Eve, Draper's Record, Graphic...
...diagrammatic sketch of the joints of the human body interpreted in terms of the joints of machinery lay puritanically before the reader on one page. On an-other the seldom depicted organs of the male and female were similarly diagramed and explained. Drawings with nondescript. people in them much like those used in Popular Mechanics and the Radio Digest were employed to give "human interest" to the explanation of what are, after all, "mechanical" if "living" organisms...
...Woodward, also a novelist,* spent six years producing his biography of Washington. His pen has not the iconoclasm of Rupert Hughes, but it is equally scholarly. Mr. Hughes uses 494 pages to bring his hero to the age of 30; Mr. Woodward in 460 makes a brilliant sketch of Washington, flanked by the colonies in peace and in revolt, and many another bigwig of the Revolutionary...
Thus in a brief sketch is outlined the development in recent years of the food situation at Harvard. Yet too easily can a false inference be drawn. It is not completely true that the Harvard student is an unsocial animal, that he prefers to take his food from a shelf and his friendship from an arm rest. Not even the maligned graduate student is exactly that near the automaton--not even the faculty member. And the real reason for the decline and fall of the Memorial Hall dining room is easily apprehended. In the first place, Memorial Hall, when...
...Justice, find Pride. Perhaps he was disillusioned last week on looking into the three new supplementary volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, wherein able Arthur B. Darling, one of the rising young assistant professors in history at Yale, disposes of the modern Ku Klux Klan in a cool, curt sketch...