Word: skimmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparative importance of the objects in an art collection ? Your "famed" and Baedecker's asterisks are simply highly condensed symbols for indicating relationships which could not be otherwise indicated without many wasted words. Those readers who know without being told the relative importance of everything, may surely skim over the asterisk or the "famed" with less pique to their vanity than if a longer expression were used. Those who lack the omniscience just referred to (and I am one) should applaud TIME for having created this concise and effective symbol, which is not to my knowledge used in this...
...moon will sweep over the East?brings in Minnesota at sunrise, thence moving southeastward in a gentle curve. It will cross northern Minnesota, nipping Duluth with its southern edge, cross the western tip of Lake Superior, include much of Wisconsin and Michigan on both sides of their joint border, skim over the northern third of Lake Michigan and the northern portion of Southern Michigan, glide over the lower half of Lake Huron, sweep across Ontario, picking up Toronto at its northern edge, span the approaching tips of Lakes Erie and Ontario, cross straight over Buffalo, darken northeastern Pennsylvania and southern...
Whatever the practical results of this disarmament, it will doubtless produce considerable rejoicing among historians, for it will skim from the troublous ocean of international causes its deceptive surface of oil. After the next war apologists of the great powers will scarcely be able to plead intervention--for protection of tiny states, involved in unequal struggles--as the lawful motive for participation...
Coach E. A. Wachter is busy this autumn teaching the single scullers to skim along the Charles. With over 90 Freshmen under his instruction as well as many of last year's scullers, he expects to have an interesting regatta at the end of October...
...recent announcement of the research fellowship established at Harvard in the name of Jacob Wertheim. "One of them is the nature of the fellowship and the other the reason stated by Mr. Maurice Wertheim for entrusting it to Harvard. Contrary to the ideas of those who merely skim headlines, the fellowship is not an outright gift to Harvard, but a trust to be administered by the University in favor of anyone indeed deserving of its benefits, whether or not a member of Harvard. As a reason for bestowing upon the University this unusual honor, Mr. Wertheim has stated "we chose...