Word: verdant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have learned from Picasso. An impression of a Dartmouth football game made the stadium look like the portals of a theatre, the players like dancers. Chinese Theatre was a gnarled mass of acrobats with an indicated audience for background. There were two impressionistic portraits of her husband, a verdant Spring in the Country geometrically laced with telephone wires...
President Conant's greatest research as a chemist was on the subject of chlorophyll. On his walks through the Yard he will appreciate more than ever the verdant, luxuriant growth of a plant filled with chlorophyll, a plant called grass. From one end of the Yard to the other his eyes can feast upon the expanse of grass. From Holworthy to Wigglesworth, from Thayer unto Strauss he can take pride in both those plots of grass that still survive. He can erect a bronze tablet in honor of those brave young blades that pushed through the morass in front...
...glimpse of Yosemite Valley. Because it is more conceivable, less Dantesque than the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, it is perhaps the most solemn natural spectacle in the world. First the earth burst open, then a glacier, next an ancient lake hollowed out and smoothed over this vast and verdant chasm. From its flat, pine-needled floor, grey monoliths rise 3,000 ft. around its edges. Bridal Veil Falls trails softly to nothingness from the top of the west rim. In the middle of the valley is Yosemite, which has a comfortable hotel and one of the coldest swimming pools...
...some 60,000 over the distribution it then had. With a whoop of delight, last week the publishers announced that the goal had been reached. To celebrate they changed the journal's name to National Home Monthly. Subscribers had been tracked down by the hundreds throughout the verdant Eastern Provinces and as far as cold grey Newfoundland...