Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Representative Gallivan had finished there was little more than time enough for the Drys to say that he had not confined himself to facts. Next day, Representative Upshaw of Georgia produced an answer in Mr. Gallivan's own gallivanting style...
...great heights in the succeeding generations. It was a century when the colorful troubadours and trouveres of the twelve and thirteen hundreds were gradually ceasing, with the disappearance of cortoisie, to sing their love songs throughout the country-side. Little by little their unwritten tunes were assuming a style which at least is intelligible to the modern...
...until the first quarter of the fifteenth century that we see this style more or less consistently developed, this time in England. John Dunstable, much of whose work has recently come to light, had acquired a European reputation for his songs. For some reason difficult to understand, he was, however, very soon forgotten and became an almost legendary character sometimes called the "inventor" of counterpoint, and, most curious of all, even identified once or twice as St. Duston...
...obliterated, by education of the Negro and by a less prejudiced attitude on the part of the Caucasians. Significance. In 600 pages, the volume is both readable and encyclopaedic. Professor Dowd has much to say and no reason for saying it except to inform. Unprejudiced in tone, easy in style, the book will last. The Author. As a youth in South Carolina, he chopped cotton with Negroes, played with their children, sold them houses and land. He has sat beside them in classrooms and later had them sit as pupils in his own classes. Trained at the University of Chicago...
...first year after the operation of the new plan 31 per cent came from the Atlantic States and 21 per cent from west of the Alleghanies. The new plan examinations have since been found to have other advantages and have superceded everywhere to large extent the old style admission requirements. Recently President Lowell further extended the principle of broadening geographically the character of the undergraduate body by the institution of the first seventh rule, by which the first seventh of a graduating class in specified grade A schools may be admitted without examination. The whole movement...