Word: varnum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present Student Council members from the Class, are: Arthur Atwood Ballantine, Jr., Anthony Addison Bliss, Thornton Brown, Frank Stanton Deland, Jr., Raymond Dennett, Braman Gibbs, Milton Gabriel Green, John Robert Haley, Robert Carlton Hall, Benjamin Harding Hallowell, Shaun Kelly, Jr., Francis Keyes, Milton Zelig Paisner, Robert Smith Playfair, Henry Varnum Poor, Edwin Howard Baker Pratt, Thomas Henry Quinn, Robert Morton Terrall, and LeMoyne White...
...other four men elected in order of the voting are Deric Nusbaum of Santa, Fe, New Mexico; Germain Green Glidden of Englewood, New Jersey; Ashton Emerson of Cambridge; and Henry Varnum Poor of New York City...
Much more popular awards were the second and third prizes to U. S. Artists John Steuart Curry and Henry Varnum Poor. Chunky, corn-fed John Steuart Curry is Kansas' gift to the arts (TIME, April 10). Growing yearly in reputation and ability, Painter Curry's solid, exciting canvases of life on the prairies have been widely shown, generously bought by all but Kansans. "Tornado," the canvas that won him $1,000 last week, shows a Kansas family diving for a storm cellar as a dusty horn of wind sweeps in from the darkened horizon. On its first showing...
...from his best work is Henry Varnum Poor's canvas, "March Sun" showing two girls and a towheaded child drowsing round a table in the bright light of a window, yet in its drawing and color it shows how far Artist Poor has advanced since the time several years ago when he gave up painting, as he thought for good, to retire to the country, build his own home, and mold, fire and glaze tiles, vases and urns that won him the reputation of the country's greatest potter. Richer Poor canvases were on view...
...inquiry room was formed by hanging large curtains of green "ground cloth" at one end of the barren gas-cell shop. White airship fabric draped the dais, where sat Rear Admiral Henry Varnum Butler, commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, president of the court...