Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loud enough. A vital starting point for attack upon secondary schools are the college board exams. Every evil of the lower learning leads up to, and away from, these. The college boards condition the kind and amount of content taught in the schools, and thus mold the type of boy which the colleges for the most part receive. And the result is that the schools teach little useful for the college course, and only what the board exams will test. It is a bizarre fact that because of the board exams much of what could at least be surveyed...
...reviews, editorials; author of feature and travel articles, biographical sketches, monographs, essays, fiction (appearing in more than a score of publications in the U. S. and England) ; young enough to be inquisitive; old enough to be acquisitive; adaptable; resourceful. Can boss or be bossed as the occasion demands; can type; can-with a little brushing up-operate a switchboard; with the key to the ignition, drive...
...untutored occidental eye, "quaint" is the word for Persian miniature paintings. Humay Meeting Humayun (see cut), painted on silk about 1430, is a far cry from the type of pseudo-Persian fantasy, with harem maidens, moons and gazelles, affected by occidental illustrators. This painting, 6 by 8½ in., belongs to the Timurid period of 'Persian art, after the Mongol conquerors, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, had brought in Chinese influences. But there is no Chinese depth or shading in the picture. The pure red, gold, blue and green robes of the figures, their rouged cheeks and the formalized tree...
...been received by the Treasurer and probably will not be for about a month, the bequest has not been formally reported to the Corporation for their approval, but the action of the Corporation is regarded as a pure formality in a bequest of this type...
...book was coherent to a remarkable degree and at times it dropped from the trite flight into Hollywood satire to the more timely type of social and political satire...