Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasing, long-breathed, impressionistic melody, but Debussy has not treated it with great fertility of invention: his harmonic treatment is not so outstanding as might be expected. There is a second theme that contains a choralc-like melody that does not succeed in the way that Chopin's use of the device did in some of his Nocturnes, nor in the way that Debussy's own use of it did later in "Le Cathederale engloutie...
...they work in their peculiar manner because they are unable to do otherwise. In this drawing, however, there is not a trace of Cubism. Quite to the contrary, it shows a draftsman who, in technical skill, is almost equal to the great artists of the Italian Renaissance. Picasso's use of line has form and solidarity which can hardly be excelled, and his handling of many different bodily positions is expert in the highest degree...
SCENE THREE. Will he get the nickel if he wins the toss, Vag? Why do the players use so much mascara under their eyes when it shows so frightfully? Why do they yell Yoohoo over there? Why doesn't he blow the whistle, Vag? . . . Yes. No. Yes. No. Vag doesn't know. How can he know everything, oh lovely Simmous girl? There is still a mist over his eyes from the Harvard-Dartmouth Ball last night. Or is it his pride in the team? This afternoon he will know...
...happens that Dr. Juan Negrin, the Premier of the Spanish Republic, is an old friend of mine. Apparently there were persons in the Medical Bureau who thought it would be a gracious gesture to use our friendship as a basis for collecting money to buy much needed food, clothing, and medical supplies for a people in sore distress. The enterprise was started without my knowledge; when it was under way I did nothing to check it, because the purpose was primarily humanitarian. Despite the protest, the enterprise still seems to me to be in accord with the ideals of helpful...
WASHINGTON--The United States will use the forthcoming Pan-American Conference at Lima, Peru, as a forum to combat the spread of fascist and Nazi influence in Latin America through the initiation of one of the greatest campaigns to strengthen democracy in the world's history, it was indicated tonight...