Word: timed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ever as an individual but as the chosen chronicler of a group. His book is thus an official history, clearly and decently told but subject to the narrowness and reticence of its kind, supplementing and to be supplemented by such a vivid personal history as Alvah Bessie's (TIME...
...central position of the Yao family. Through their connections with the Tseng and New families, with honest and corrupt officials, big business, scholars, intellectuals, black sheep, third-generation revolutionists, ruined Mandarins, singsong girls, peasants, the Yao family get an extraordinarily diverse view of the revolutionary history of their time...
...Poet Pound undertook to attack British literary lethargy from afar (i.e., Rapallo, Italy), while Poet Eliot played possum in the enemy camp. Lying low in a high place, Eliot never included in his published works various light verses about cats which his friends and a few children received from time to time, typewritten and unsigned. The present collection marks, among other things, Eliot's first public acknowledgment of possumhood...
After the Yale football game, Fesler will be able to devote all of his time to the hoop squad, and about five more men will report at that time. At present, some 20 men are working out in the evenings. Next week afternoon drills will start...
...sense, misleading to attach a term like "Impressionism" to a definite chronological period; for despite the fact that many outstanding painters who lived during the middle of the last century were Impressionists, the term itself is primarily indicative of a method rather than a time in the history of painting. An Impressionistic painting is simply one in which bright, practically unfused colors are placed on the canvas in such a manner that the eye of the onlooker, rather than the brush of the artist, mixes the tones and gives them coherence. Perhaps an example would serve to illustrate my point...