Word: wooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back of the whole set-up was a belief that the more plain workmanship with canvas, wood, stone, metals, textiles, clay and color goes on in a country, the finer fine arts it may produce. Holger Cahill is fond of using a fact of nature to illustrate his theory of national art: "You don't often find mountains where there is no plateau." Hostile critics have rejoined that plateaus and genuine art movements alike are beyond the power of governments to create. But even such critics admit that the Federal Art Project has gone about...
...first call for the very afternoon of registration day. Enough prep school captains usually appear to make up a whole squad, but that does not mean that everyone is not given a chance, and the only way you will be able to find out whether your are another Barry Wood or Vornon Struck is to go out and so. You will be taught the Harlow system right from the start, and previous experience will not be as important as ordinarily thought...
...years ago Harvard's first great football team since the days of Barry Wood went into the closing minutes of the Princeton game trailing 14-7. All afternoon it had stubbornly battled the fast. Crislor machine on almost even terms. With but a couple of minutes to play Harvard had the ball just inside Tiger territory, and the long pass was called...
...Reason: all materials had to be carried up by climbers. In duraluminum they weighed seven and a half tons. In wood they would have weighed 110 tons...
...London, meanwhile, living in exile in a rented house in St. John's Wood with his wife and children, the frail, 82-year-old Viennese inventor of psychoanalysis has become a concentration point for a half-dozen leading U. S. publishers, who are bidding for his incomplete next book. Sums bid have not been disclosed, but are called "tremendous," meaning, probably, somewhere between $10,000 and $25,000. That publishers are bidding on a good thing seems reasonably sure. Freud's work-in-progress is a psychological study of the Old Testament, with special emphasis on Moses...