Word: wide
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mood, dignified in conception, Titian is the embodiment of excellence in painting. He made no attempt to express the inexpressible, but was rather the portrayer of humanity. For ninety-nine years he lived in full possession of his powers, combining a perfect mastery of his art with a wide knowledge of nature. It is generally not permissible to call an artist the best there has been, but if anyone deserves the superlative, it is Titian...
...voice and manner, but even his pronunciation. As Goethe says: "The really high and difficult part of art is the apprehension of what is individual, characteristic." The artist of experience, to whom is entrusted the proper means of expressing an emotion under given conditions and limitations, has so wide a choice of means that his task becomes almost an unconscious one, and his own instinct can perhaps best guide...
...facade of the proposed structure is of handsome design and will be built of white marble. The building will be three stories high, 90 feet wide and 50 feet deep. There are to be two entrances...
...there is no reason why nearly every man in the class should not attend. Support will, unquestionably, make the dinner a success, and, particularly, prompt support. Let no man postpone signing the blue-book at Leavitt's; if only a large number of men sign at once, a very wide interest will be awakened by this very promptness...
...favor; but, rather, the heavier the odds against her, the greater ought to be her efforts. There is a feeling among outsiders that Harvard is lacking in grit to rise to great emergencies. An ill-founded belief we believe it to be, and yet it is undoubtedly a wide-spread one. Much can be done now to refute...