Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most inexcusable of your blunders is that which calls Washington a Deist, and likens him in this respect to Thomas Paine, then goes on to insinuate that Washington lent his influence to the perpetuation of religion in spite of this assumed fact, because he was an "able politician." This is to brand Washington a hypocrite. There are many pages in his public addresses and messages which no Deist could sincerely have written. Take, for example, the passage in his message to the governors of the States when disbanding the army, June 8, 1783, beginning "I now make it my earnest...
...study with the palette and stype of Gainsborough with due success. The figures in this scene are skillfully painted with the use of the palette knife in order to give to them their characteristic ostentatious appearance. The English scene "Punting" is mellow toned with a richness in quality in spite of the limited palette. From a difffferent point of view an experimental note can be found in the water colors of grave yard scenes. Though color is generally interesting to associate it with grave stone is uncommon. The same idea is to be found in one of two decorative pictures...
...theatres in nontheatrical districts, keep business houses open at night. The Committee awaits Mr. Morgan's return from Europe. Whether or not the new house will be ready next year is now a matter of conjecture. Whether or not the Company can retain the support of Mr. Kahn in spite of continuous opposition from some of its directors is just as problematical...
...spite of this antithesis of men, last week's Institute meeting resembled those under Judge Gary. Mr. Schwab made a careful speech in which he stressed the necessity of a "proper and economic distribution and selling" of steel products. That was a formula that meant that steel prices must be changed. Iron and steel companies have not been making ordinary profits recently. President Eugene Figgord Grace of Bethlehem Steel suggested to the Institute that because producers have done everything they know to reduce manufacturing costs they might have to reduce wages. U. S. Steel Corp. men there opposed...
...apparent agility with which he has greeted the opening gun. The opposite may happen equally well and a man for whom the basic elements of a course are difficult to grasp may never reach more than an average grade, due to the had impression made in November; for, in spite of assurances to the contrary, the handwriting on the wall in November is usually indelible and has not been wholly obliterated in February...