Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S review of Anthropologist Hooton's Apes, Men and Morons you quote his statement that sooner or later the public is going to call Science's bluff of omniscience. As the worthy professor is guilty of many positive statements which smack of omniscience, his bluff is herewith called...
...Hainan and use it as a base to bomb the French-owned Indo-Chinese Yunnan Railway if the supplies were not cut off, were officially denied by the French and Japanese Governments-but within 24 hours President Henry Berenger of the French Senate Foreign Affairs Committee blurted a sensational statement that these rumors were substantially correct. "I am not betraying," fibbed the Senator genially, "any diplomatic secret...
...master bomb-throwers of the art world, none other than the terrible-tem-pered Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes, millionaire inventor of Argyrol and owner of the finest private collection of modern French paintings in the U. S. Dr. Barnes was incensed by the Museum's statement that "a second version, and a slightly smaller picture" of Les Grandes Baigneuses was in the Barnes Foundation collection. In response he roared that the Barnes Bathers had been painted eight years before the Widener Bathers, that the latter was "monotonous, dry and lusterless" by comparison. Cracked "Argyrol" Barnes...
...opinion of discriminating collectors and dealers generally, that the unfinished Museum Bathers is of about fifth-rate quality for a Cézanne-in contrast to the newspaper statement that it is his 'greatest masterpiece'-explains why this picture went begging for a buyer for more than five years. ... Its former owner, in the presence of witnesses, offered to sell the picture to me for $80,000. . . . The painting's presence in Philadelphia represents not the intelligence and cultural levels of the general population, but the evil of having an absentee dictator of the local official...
...figures appeared in a statement included in the annual report of Henry L. Shattuck '01, Treasurer of the College. Total receipts of the H.A.A. for the 1936-37 academic year rose to $564,571.09, an increase of $44,397.47 over the 1935-36 income. But the difference was not pure gain, since guarantees paid to visiting teams climbed to $174,015.15 from $139,303.65 last year, cutting into the increased intake...