Word: surround
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairs and canvas to surround the individual spreads will be furnished by the Committee at a nominal cost, but the men giving the spread will be obliged to furnish lanterns and such decorations as they wish. These things may be purchased conveniently at Brock Brothers and the Cooperative. Men will be expected to get their own caterers and the names of the caterers must appear on the applications. Applications without these names will not be considered by the Committee. Police arrangements will be made by the Committee, through whom also, ticket takers may be secured...
...true in many senses of Monet's greatest work. The famous series are exquisite color harmonies, -blurred if the observer stands too close, vivid and truthful if he steps back,-but not so much pictures of haystack or fields, as of the changing light and air which surround them. Monet was working, when his eyesight failed, on the last of his great series, the so-called Nympheas, 300 separate paintings of a single lily pond in his garden...
...beginning of each round more than seven hundred are expected to be on hand,--not as large as the crowd at a football game, perhaps, but a good showing for so staid a place as "Mem" Hall, and one which may well draw smiles from the portraits which surround its walls...
...origin of this paradoxical animal remains a mystery. Perhaps it originated from one of those insectivorous swarms that surround are lights, Lamps, and other sources of artificial light. By some, it is supposed to be a humerous tendency of a dying race. By others, it is heralded as the first delicate development of actual thought in individuals long-buried in the slough of wit. By this last definition, it is a freak to the encouraged. Students of Harvard, we have here an unsurpassed opportunity ot practise that Christmas spirit; to herald this hybrid bug as a true struggler toward...
...represents the person to be murdered in the first chapter; "B" is the extraordinarily beautiful girl, somehow related to "A", upon whom suspicion is cast by the local police; while "C" is the famous detective who solves the various "mysterious", or "sinister", forces--"Z to the nth power"--which surround the murder and emanate from "X", the villain or unknown quantity. The formula is then derived by cancelling "A" with "Z to the nth power", subtracting "X", squaring "B" and adding "C", with as many other factors as the ingenuity of the author can devise...