Word: throughout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholarships are awarded by the will of Cecil John Rhodes, who died in 1902 after establishing the British Empire throughout South Africa, and after whom the Colony of Rhodesia was named. He attended Oxford University for periods broken by poor health between 1872 and 1878, when he obtained his degree...
Referring to his inclusion of American students, he says, "I also desire to encourage and foster an appreciation of the advantages which I implicity believe will result from the union of the English speaking people throughout the world, and to encourage in the students from the United States of North American scholarships to be established for the reason above given at the University of Oxford under this my will, an attachment to the country from which they have sprung, but without, I hope, withdrawing them or their sympathies from the land of their adoption or birth...
...painting began in Italy, became oil painting in Flanders. Dogmatic homilies together with disarming confessions of his own amateur standing appear in every chapter. If the reader wants to know something about Chinese art, advises the sensible lecturer, let him get Chinese brushes and ink and try it. Scattered throughout the book are no less than 180 drawings ranging from scraggly diagrams to colored sketches of a Dutch harbor intended to show how painters of different schools depicted it. Caption: "As for the nonobjective virtuosi, they, of course, had the easiest time of all, for they could just as well...
...town Presbyterian may wear with pleasure. Doubly notable, therefore, was an Episcopal pageant put on last week in Philadelphia's big Convention Hall-biggest show ever performed by U. S. Episcopalians, and designed to quicken Episcopal interest in missions. It was called The Drama of Missions to Spread Throughout the World the Glory of the Light That All Nations May See and Know Him. It had its genesis a year ago when Pennsylvania's Bishop Francis Marion Taitt, ordinarily a scholarly, retiring churchman, marched down Broad Street, with austere little Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York, other...
...members were allowed to avail themselves. Further the American people are entitled to know why their new Supreme Court Justice seems to know so little about the records of the Empire of which he was once a member. Did he deliver those speeches photostatic copies of which were printed throughout the country? If not, why did he not make as categorical a denial of them as he did of the intolerance charged to him, by his reference to the beautiful relationships he has had with all groups opposed by the Klan Surely there was no chance of the press garbling...