Word: threading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unicorns and delicate ladies in heavy gowns. From that high point of fantasy, the art gradually declined to the 18th Century confections of pastoral sex and sweetness designed by Boucher and Oudry. To imitate such painted designs, painstaking weavers had used as many as 30,000 different shades of thread...
...appraisal of Niemöller, pronounced in 1940 by a fellow theologian, Dr. Karl Earth of Switzerland, plucked a revealing thread of consistency from the pastor's contradictory career. The appraisal still seemed to fit the postwar cut of Niemöller's jib. Wrote Dr. Earth: "Do not forget that Niemöller has always been, and remains today, a good-a too good-German. ... He has never ceased to be a fervent German nationalist...
...wonderful in its learning and in the visions that it evokes. A theme links it together, a masque of some sort, but it is never very clear, and if readers do not puzzle over it they will find Sacheverell Sitwell's essays independently interesting, regardless of the thread by which he links them together. His writing is for a world that is exhausted and convalescent; it has something of the quality of the touch of fingers to the eyelid to soothe a headache...
...these three novelettes, a young Englishman has fashioned pleasantly simple one-thread stories about love and the contrasting ways in which it is expressed...
...shoes of two almost legendary deans, LeBaron Russell Briggs and A. Chester Hanford. With his work three fourths disciplinary and routine, he has to draw in the reins on his positive plans for the College while he carries out a policy that the Faculty has formulated. A narrow thread between Administration and Student, his is probably the most delicate position around the Harvard Yard...