Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twentieth-century tastes in art have rescued from oblivion or minor status an imposing list of old masters, e.g., Italy's Piero della Francesca, Spain's El Greco, The Netherlands' Vermeer. Still least-known of the rediscovered old masters is France's 17th century Georges de La Tour (TIME, July 12, 1948), three of whose works have just been acquired by U.S. museums (see color page). The wonder seems less that such paintings are recognized as masterworks than that they were ever consigned to the attic...
Thus ended Jordan's seven-year tenure as Harvard's twentieth head coach, a term in which his teams compiled a record of 24 wins, 31 losses, and 3 ties. While in 1956 the Crimson eleven had only a 2 and 6 record, three of his other squads had winning records, and the 1954 team beat Yale and Princeton for the first time since 1941. He is the third straight football coach released before the expiration of his agreement with the University...
Lloyd Paul Jordan, Harvard's twentieth football coach, was appointed mentor here on March 1, 1950, after 17 years at Amherst. He succeeded Art Valpey, who had coached for just two seasons after replacing Dick Harlow...
Jeffers, "a twentieth century Cassandra," felt that Christ had "shamed an age," and that His crucifixion had given Western people a "lust for blood," the speaker asserted. Wilder cited Jeffers' work, "Dear Judas," in which the poet asserts that Christ realizes that His power over man is achieved through suffering...
...ordered 3,000 men put to the sword in one day-a warning to all those who would be willing to kill others in order to improve the survivors. Says Churchill: "A school grew up to gape in awe and some in furtive admiration at these savage times . . . The twentieth century has sharply recalled its intellectuals from such vain indulgences...