Word: various
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...landscapes: deserting table-top still lifes, he had found a little of the space and sweep of the out-of-doors. The second quality was in his colors. As a reaction against the sunny hues of impressionism, the cubists had often painted with what looked like birdlime and various fine shades of mud. Villon reversed the process: his landscapes seethed with the brightest, sharpest and sometimes shrillest colors he could...
...combine the greatest strength with the greatest polish is the toughest job a coach has. It calls for the almost uncanny ability to watch one or two hundred young men tugging away on rowing machines or working on the river, and by merely looking at them and experimenting with various combinations, choosing the best boatload...
Graton wanted to see how temperatures changed at various depths as the geyser went off. But once his experimenting brought up more than a handful of pen-line graphs...
Northwestern ordinarily has two vice-presidents, one in charge of business affairs and the other in charge of the various faculties of the school. Each of these schools (school of liberal arts, school of journalism, etc.) have their own deans who are directly responsible to the Dean of the Faculties...
Henry D. Aiken, associate professor of Philosophy, whittled away at the various ways the U.S. and Russia might prevent war, and decided that the only feasible solution was through a mutual fear of its results. Mutual trust, he concluded, between the two nations is now impossible and can't exist for many years. Aiken then put some small measure of approval on the signing of the Atlantic Pact...