Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult to state exactly what would suit the needs and tastes of persons who are being introduced to romantic poetry. But certainly more generalities and less minutiae are necessary. As a specific example, I object to devoting six lectures to the discussion of which came first, Hyperion or the Vision of Hyperion, and spending no time on the poems...
...greatest books. From the scribesmen also he took the manuscripts on which for centuries they had been perpetuating the classics: he printed them with copious and cloquent notes, and scattered them throughout the libraries of Italy. Out of these the artists of the Renaissance took the sudden vision and the new ideal which made them famous...
white fire flies out of it; vision that...
...Baker is unique and outstanding among the possible Democratic nominees. At a time when it is becoming more and more apparent that prosperity or depression is dependent on international conditions, it is imperative that the next occupant of the white House shall be gifted with courage, a largeness of vision and a freedom from traditional shibboleths so that he may direct our policies along the new way of international cooperation...
...damage to respiratory organs, but nothing worse than pulmonary oedema. Even with such complete disability, only 0.38 per cent of the entire war expenses were devoted to poisonous gases. There are five types of gases. The first, active irritants such as chlorine and phosgene; the second, lachrymators, which render vision impossible; the third, paralysants, such as prussic acid, which are the most dangerous, causing immediate death by destroying the nervous system, when used in great concentration; the fourth, sternutators or sneezers, which are effective by causing respiratory irritation, nausea and general depression. Diphenyelchlorasine is the most frequently used. The fifth...