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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earn one in our time and with our help. I do not believe it a less scholarly enterprise to investigate the effects of aluminum on sculptural form, the relation between function and proportion in the automobile, or the color dynamics of the animated cartoon, than to explore the use of oil medium by the Van Eycks, the color-orchestration of the Venetians, or the perspective of Piero della Francesca. The question, to me, is not whether the work of Disney is art or non-art, but whether we can bring to fruition the seemingly unlimited formal and expressive possibilities which...
Directed by Professor Warren T. Powell, head of the university's student counselling department, the mechanism, all part of a college program evaluating psychological and other forms of standard tests, makes use of 750 "electric fingers" which detect the answers recorded on the answers sheet...
...slang goes, no one knows how much of it Louis really did start and how much of it was river boat and Harlemese. But the fact remains that a great many of his early records contained the slang that musicians use today. You won't hear musicians talking about "licorice sticks" (a jitterbug term for clarinet) whereas you will hear them talking about "gage" and "tea" (two terms for marijuana...
Words are of use, but they are not enough. With congress lies the next move--casting off of the shackles of the neutrality act. It will mean a fight to the finish with the isolationists who, though well intentioned, would prevent America from taking steps in her own defense; but it will be worth the effort if some enactment along the lines of the recent Stimson suggestions--combines, perhaps, with certain of the Pittman cash-and-carry provisions--can be made. Only thus, ion fact, can America make more likely her chance of remaining at peace...
...would place a heavy pack on the back of each Master, and while it would cause traffic jams in the by-ways of University Hall, it would provide one of the most intimate views possible of each Freshman. At the present time, only one Master is industrious enough to use this method...