Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carnegie Corporation, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, Milbank Memorial Fund, New York Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Julius Rosenwald Fund, Russell Sage Foundation, Twentieth Century Fund, Social Science Research Council, Vermont Commission on County Life. *Including "$125,000,000 . . . spent for the services of osteopaths, chiropractors, naturopaths and allied groups, and faith healers, and $360,000,000 for patent medicines. Much of the former sum and practically all of the latter are wasted...
Beginning today and running through Saturday, December 3, a loan exhibition of German paintings will be on view in the German paintings will be on view in the Germanic Museum. The collection includes a group of paintings entitled "Entering the Twentieth Century," as well as several works of Nax Techstein...
Pennsylvania, one twentieth reporting gave Hoover a leader of about 80,000 to 60,000 for Roosevelt. This refuted slightly earlier reports which were giving Roosevelt the keystone's 38 electoral votes
...Playgoer shrinks when he realizes how coarsely some may construe his comparison with twentieth-century George White. A good fifty years ago when "Patience" was first played, the streets of London were lighted by gas, Bond Street brightened by a sunflower in the arms of a velveteen breeched young man, later known to his friends as Sebastian Melmouth. To understand this remarkable young man one had to read the Yellow Book, live up to one's blue china, grow long hair, be super-aesthetical, think of lilies, and have a sense of humor; the last qualification is, of course, paradoxical...
...charm, the charm of an essay tradition of particular grace and rambling interest, of pages of excellent poetry, and of a truly civilized outlook on life. "Fall of visionary ideals, impressed by a certain dogmatic scholarship, and when not riding any one of its literary hobbies, profoundly intellectual," a twentieth century critic described it, it was a fair and keen analysis...