Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Part of the British press last week deplored Their Majesties' decision to take the Repulse instead of a liner, because 1) the accommodations, though ingenious, are not too comfortable; 2) "We need all our warships here for the purpose of defense...
...First, though, Lewis plans for two or three years after graduation to ramble around the country, learning about America, preferably by holding down newspaper jobs in several different localities...
...other courses, among them Physics C and Biology D, have comparable marking systems; but the rest, though they may shout to the skies that they have complete coordination among their sections, can give no air-tight proof of fact. They can only refer vaguely to the "common sense" of their instructors. True, the common sense of a great many staffs is extremely good, but other courses have failed utterly to bring any order or continuity out of the various theories and marking systems of their section...
...Requiem the singers face a problem quite different from any they have met in a work of major proportions in recent years. It is probably harder to perform well than either the Beethoven Missa Solemnis or the Bach St. Matthew's Passion. Though the latter are physically more difficult, they are comparatively clear-cut in their problems of nuance and phrasing. They are not particularly intimate in their sentiments; that is, there is a certain broadness about them which lends itself to interpretation by groups almost as well as by individuals. In the Requiem, however, the expression is much more...
...ordinary Duco enamel but a similar nitrocellulose paint. It has taken him six years, since he first started work with Siqueiros in Mexico City, to train his trigger finger to its present control. Painted on pressed wood, his two mural Portraits of New York were full of refined detail, though somewhat lifeless in color and very stark in symbolism. Each embodied a major ingenuity which Artist Berdecio calls "kinetic perspective" by which distortions are so anticipated and utilized as to make the mural a satisfactory, if somewhat different, picture to spectators from each side as well as in front...