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The 1960 census underscored the explosive character of the population growth. | underscored | {
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It also brought home proof of something a casual observer might have missed : that more than half of the U. S. Negroes live outside the southeastern states. | brought home | {
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It also brought home proof of something a casual observer might have missed : that more than half of the U. S. Negroes live outside the southeastern states. | missed | {
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It also brought home proof of something a casual observer might have missed : that more than half of the U. S. Negroes live outside the southeastern states. | live | {
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Also, the state with the largest number of Negroes is New York - not in the South at all. | is | {
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In New York City, WLIB boasts `` more community service programs than any other Negro station '' and `` one of the largest Negro news staffs in America ''. | boasts | {
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And WWRL 's colorful mobile unit, cruising predominately Negro neighborhoods, is a frequent reminder of that station 's round-the-clock dedication to nonwhite interests. | cruising | {
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And WWRL 's colorful mobile unit, cruising predominately Negro neighborhoods, is a frequent reminder of that station 's round-the-clock dedication to nonwhite interests. | is | {
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Recently, WWRL won praise for its expose of particular cases of employment agency deceit. | won | {
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A half-dozen other stations in the New York area also bid for attention of the city 's Negro population, up about 50 per cent in the past decade. | bid | {
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In all big cities outside the South, and even in small towns within the South, radio stations can be found beaming some or all of their programs at Negro listeners. | found | {
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In all big cities outside the South, and even in small towns within the South, radio stations can be found beaming some or all of their programs at Negro listeners. | beaming | {
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The Keystone Broadcasting System 's Negro network includes 360 affiliated stations, whose signals reach more than half the total U. S. Negro population. | includes | {
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The Keystone Broadcasting System 's Negro network includes 360 affiliated stations, whose signals reach more than half the total U. S. Negro population. | reach | {
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One question which inevitably crops up is whether such stations have a future in a nation where the Negro is moving into a fully integrated status. | crops up | {
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One question which inevitably crops up is whether such stations have a future in a nation where the Negro is moving into a fully integrated status. | is | {
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One question which inevitably crops up is whether such stations have a future in a nation where the Negro is moving into a fully integrated status. | have | {
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One question which inevitably crops up is whether such stations have a future in a nation where the Negro is moving into a fully integrated status. | moving into | {
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Whatever the long-range impact of integration, the owners of Negro-appeal radio stations these days know they have an audience and that it is loyal. | know | {
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Whatever the long-range impact of integration, the owners of Negro-appeal radio stations these days know they have an audience and that it is loyal. | have | {
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Whatever the long-range impact of integration, the owners of Negro-appeal radio stations these days know they have an audience and that it is loyal. | is | {
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Advertisers have discovered the tendency of Negroes to shop for brand names they have heard on stations catering to their special interests. | discovered | {
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Advertisers have discovered the tendency of Negroes to shop for brand names they have heard on stations catering to their special interests. | shop | {
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Advertisers have discovered the tendency of Negroes to shop for brand names they have heard on stations catering to their special interests. | heard | {
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And many advertisers have been happy with the results of letting a Negro disc jockey phrase the commercial in his own words, working only from a fact sheet. | been | {
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And many advertisers have been happy with the results of letting a Negro disc jockey phrase the commercial in his own words, working only from a fact sheet. | letting | {
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And many advertisers have been happy with the results of letting a Negro disc jockey phrase the commercial in his own words, working only from a fact sheet. | phrase | {
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And many advertisers have been happy with the results of letting a Negro disc jockey phrase the commercial in his own words, working only from a fact sheet. | working | {
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What sets Negro-appeal programing apart from other radio shows? | sets | {
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Sponsor magazine notes the stress on popular Negro bands and singers ; rhythm-and-blues mood music ; `` race '' music, folk songs and melodies, and gospel programs. | notes | {
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Furthermore, news and special presentations inform the listener about groups, projects, and personalities rarely mentioned on a general-appeal station. | inform | {
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Furthermore, news and special presentations inform the listener about groups, projects, and personalities rarely mentioned on a general-appeal station. | mentioned | {
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Advertising copy frequently takes into account matters of special Negro concern. | takes into account | {
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Sponsor quotes John McLendon of the McLendon-Ebony station group as saying that the Southern Negro is becoming conscious of quality and and `` does not wish to be associated with radio which is any way degrading to his race ; he tends to shy away from the hooting and hollering personalities that originally made Negro r... | quotes | {
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Sponsor quotes John McLendon of the McLendon-Ebony station group as saying that the Southern Negro is becoming conscious of quality and and `` does not wish to be associated with radio which is any way degrading to his race ; he tends to shy away from the hooting and hollering personalities that originally made Negro r... | saying | {
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Sponsor quotes John McLendon of the McLendon-Ebony station group as saying that the Southern Negro is becoming conscious of quality and and `` does not wish to be associated with radio which is any way degrading to his race ; he tends to shy away from the hooting and hollering personalities that originally made Negro r... | becoming | {
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Sponsor quotes John McLendon of the McLendon-Ebony station group as saying that the Southern Negro is becoming conscious of quality and and `` does not wish to be associated with radio which is any way degrading to his race ; he tends to shy away from the hooting and hollering personalities that originally made Negro r... | wish | {
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Sponsor quotes John McLendon of the McLendon-Ebony station group as saying that the Southern Negro is becoming conscious of quality and and `` does not wish to be associated with radio which is any way degrading to his race ; he tends to shy away from the hooting and hollering personalities that originally made Negro r... | is | {
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Sponsor quotes John McLendon of the McLendon-Ebony station group as saying that the Southern Negro is becoming conscious of quality and and `` does not wish to be associated with radio which is any way degrading to his race ; he tends to shy away from the hooting and hollering personalities that originally made Negro r... | tends | {
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Sponsor quotes John McLendon of the McLendon-Ebony station group as saying that the Southern Negro is becoming conscious of quality and and `` does not wish to be associated with radio which is any way degrading to his race ; he tends to shy away from the hooting and hollering personalities that originally made Negro r... | shy away from | {
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Sponsor quotes John McLendon of the McLendon-Ebony station group as saying that the Southern Negro is becoming conscious of quality and and `` does not wish to be associated with radio which is any way degrading to his race ; he tends to shy away from the hooting and hollering personalities that originally made Negro r... | made | {
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The sociological impact is perhaps most eloquently summed up in this quotation of J. Walter Carroll of KSAN, San Francisco : | summed up | {
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`` Negro-appeal radio is more important to the Negro today, because it provides a direct and powerful mirror in which the Negro can hear and see his ambitions, achievements and desires. | is | {
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`` Negro-appeal radio is more important to the Negro today, because it provides a direct and powerful mirror in which the Negro can hear and see his ambitions, achievements and desires. | provides | {
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`` Negro-appeal radio is more important to the Negro today, because it provides a direct and powerful mirror in which the Negro can hear and see his ambitions, achievements and desires. | hear | {
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`` Negro-appeal radio is more important to the Negro today, because it provides a direct and powerful mirror in which the Negro can hear and see his ambitions, achievements and desires. | see | {
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It will continue to be important as a means of orientation to the Negro, seeking to become urbanized, as he tries to make adjustment to the urban life. | continue | {
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It will continue to be important as a means of orientation to the Negro, seeking to become urbanized, as he tries to make adjustment to the urban life. | seeking | {
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It will continue to be important as a means of orientation to the Negro, seeking to become urbanized, as he tries to make adjustment to the urban life. | become | {
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It will continue to be important as a means of orientation to the Negro, seeking to become urbanized, as he tries to make adjustment to the urban life. | tries | {
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Negro radio is vitally necessary during the process of assimilation ''. | is | {
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Presentation of `` The Life and Times of John Sloan '' in the Delaware Art Center here suggests a current nostalgia for human values in art. | suggests | {
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Staged by way of announcing the gift of a large and intimate Sloan collection by the artist 's widow, Helen Farr Sloan, to the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, the exhibition presents a survey of Sloan 's work. | Staged | {
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Staged by way of announcing the gift of a large and intimate Sloan collection by the artist 's widow, Helen Farr Sloan, to the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, the exhibition presents a survey of Sloan 's work. | announcing | {
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Staged by way of announcing the gift of a large and intimate Sloan collection by the artist 's widow, Helen Farr Sloan, to the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, the exhibition presents a survey of Sloan 's work. | presents | {
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From early family portraits, painted before he entered the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the chronology extends to a group of paintings executed in his last year ( 1951 ) and still part of his estate. | painted | {
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From early family portraits, painted before he entered the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the chronology extends to a group of paintings executed in his last year ( 1951 ) and still part of his estate. | entered | {
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From early family portraits, painted before he entered the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the chronology extends to a group of paintings executed in his last year ( 1951 ) and still part of his estate. | extends to | {
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Few artists have left a life work so eloquent of the period in which they lived. | left | {
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Few artists have left a life work so eloquent of the period in which they lived. | lived | {
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Few who have painted the scenes around them have done so with so little bitterness. | painted | {
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The paintings, drawings, prints, and illustrations all reflect the manners, costumes, and mores of America in the first half of the present century. | reflect | {
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Obviously Sloan 's early years were influenced by his close friend Robert Henri. | influenced | {
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As early as 1928, however, the Sloan style began to change. | began | {
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As early as 1928, however, the Sloan style began to change. | change | {
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The dark pigments of the early work were superseded by a brighter palette. | superseded | {
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The solidity of brush stroke yielded to a hatching technique that finally led to virtual abandonment of American genres in favor of single figure studies and studio nudes. | yielded | {
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The solidity of brush stroke yielded to a hatching technique that finally led to virtual abandonment of American genres in favor of single figure studies and studio nudes. | led | {
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The exhibition presents all phases of Sloan 's many-sided art. | presents | {
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In addition to the paintings are drawings, prints, and illustrations. | are | {
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Sloan created such works for newspaper supplements before syndication threw him out of a job and sent him to roam the streets of New York, thereby building for America an incomparable city survey from paintings of McSorley 's Saloon to breezy clotheslines on city roofs. | created | {
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... | [
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] |
Sloan created such works for newspaper supplements before syndication threw him out of a job and sent him to roam the streets of New York, thereby building for America an incomparable city survey from paintings of McSorley 's Saloon to breezy clotheslines on city roofs. | threw | {
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Sloan created such works for newspaper supplements before syndication threw him out of a job and sent him to roam the streets of New York, thereby building for America an incomparable city survey from paintings of McSorley 's Saloon to breezy clotheslines on city roofs. | sent | {
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"send%2:38:01::"
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Sloan created such works for newspaper supplements before syndication threw him out of a job and sent him to roam the streets of New York, thereby building for America an incomparable city survey from paintings of McSorley 's Saloon to breezy clotheslines on city roofs. | roam | {
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Sloan created such works for newspaper supplements before syndication threw him out of a job and sent him to roam the streets of New York, thereby building for America an incomparable city survey from paintings of McSorley 's Saloon to breezy clotheslines on city roofs. | building | {
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One of the most appealing of the rooftop canvases is `` Sun and Wind on the Roof '', with a woman and child bracing themselves against flapping clothes and flying birds. | is | {
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One of the most appealing of the rooftop canvases is `` Sun and Wind on the Roof '', with a woman and child bracing themselves against flapping clothes and flying birds. | bracing | {
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Although there are landscapes in the show ( one of the strongest is a vista of `` Gloucester Harbor '' in 1915 ), the human element was the compelling factor in Sloan 's art. | are | {
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Although there are landscapes in the show ( one of the strongest is a vista of `` Gloucester Harbor '' in 1915 ), the human element was the compelling factor in Sloan 's art. | is | {
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Although there are landscapes in the show ( one of the strongest is a vista of `` Gloucester Harbor '' in 1915 ), the human element was the compelling factor in Sloan 's art. | was | {
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Significant are such canvases as `` Bleeker Street, Saturday Night '', with its typically American crowd ( Sloan never went abroad ) ; the multifigure `` Traveling Carnival '', in which action is vivified by lighting ; or `` Carmine Theater, 1912 '', the only canvas with an ash can ( and foraging dog ), although Sloan ... | are | {
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"have an ex... | [
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Significant are such canvases as `` Bleeker Street, Saturday Night '', with its typically American crowd ( Sloan never went abroad ) ; the multifigure `` Traveling Carnival '', in which action is vivified by lighting ; or `` Carmine Theater, 1912 '', the only canvas with an ash can ( and foraging dog ), although Sloan ... | went | {
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] | [
"go%2:38:00::"
] |
Significant are such canvases as `` Bleeker Street, Saturday Night '', with its typically American crowd ( Sloan never went abroad ) ; the multifigure `` Traveling Carnival '', in which action is vivified by lighting ; or `` Carmine Theater, 1912 '', the only canvas with an ash can ( and foraging dog ), although Sloan ... | vivified | {
"name": "vivify",
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"give new life or energy to",
"make more striking or animated"
]
} | [
"give new life or energy to"
] | [
"vivify%2:29:00::"
] |
Significant are such canvases as `` Bleeker Street, Saturday Night '', with its typically American crowd ( Sloan never went abroad ) ; the multifigure `` Traveling Carnival '', in which action is vivified by lighting ; or `` Carmine Theater, 1912 '', the only canvas with an ash can ( and foraging dog ), although Sloan ... | was | {
"name": "be",
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"have an ex... | [
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] | [
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] |
Significant are such canvases as `` Bleeker Street, Saturday Night '', with its typically American crowd ( Sloan never went abroad ) ; the multifigure `` Traveling Carnival '', in which action is vivified by lighting ; or `` Carmine Theater, 1912 '', the only canvas with an ash can ( and foraging dog ), although Sloan ... | resented | {
"name": "resent",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"feel bitter or indignant about",
"wish ill or allow unwillingly"
]
} | [
"feel bitter or indignant about"
] | [
"resent%2:37:00::"
] |
Not all the paintings, however, are of cities. | are | {
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] | [
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] |
The exhibition touches briefly on his sojourn in the Southwest ( `` Koshare in the Dust '', a vigorous Indian dance, and landscapes suggest the influence of western color on his palette ). | touches | {
"name": "touch",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"the event of something coming in contact with the body",
"the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)",
"a suggestion of some quality",
"a distinguishing style",
"the act of put... | [
"be relevant to"
] | [
"touch%2:42:00::"
] |
The exhibition touches briefly on his sojourn in the Southwest ( `` Koshare in the Dust '', a vigorous Indian dance, and landscapes suggest the influence of western color on his palette ). | suggest | {
"name": "suggest",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"make a proposal, declare a plan for something",
"drop a hint; intimate by a hint",
"imply as a possibility",
"suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine",
"call to mind"
]
} | [
"call to mind"
] | [
"suggest%2:32:01::"
] |
The fact that Sloan was an extrovert, concerned primarily with what he saw, adds greatly to the value of his art as a human chronicle. | was | {
"name": "be",
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"have an ex... | [
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The fact that Sloan was an extrovert, concerned primarily with what he saw, adds greatly to the value of his art as a human chronicle. | concerned | {
"name": "concern",
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"an anxious feeling",
"a feeling of sympathy for someone or something",
"something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness",
"a commercial or industrial enterpr... | [
"be on the mind of"
] | [
"concern%2:42:01::"
] |
The fact that Sloan was an extrovert, concerned primarily with what he saw, adds greatly to the value of his art as a human chronicle. | saw | {
"name": "see",
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"perceive (an idea or situation) mentally",
"perceive or be contemporaneous with",
"imagine; conceive of; see in one's min... | [
"perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight"
] | [
"see%2:39:00::"
] |
The fact that Sloan was an extrovert, concerned primarily with what he saw, adds greatly to the value of his art as a human chronicle. | adds | {
"name": "add",
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"bestow a quality on",
"make an... | [
"bestow a quality on"
] | [
"add%2:40:00::"
] |
There are 151 items in the Wilmington show, including one painting by each member of the `` Eight '', as well as work by Sloan 's friends and students. | are | {
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"have an ex... | [
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] | [
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There are 151 items in the Wilmington show, including one painting by each member of the `` Eight '', as well as work by Sloan 's friends and students. | including | {
"name": "include",
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"consider as part of something",
"add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category",
"allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and respo... | [
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] | [
"include%2:42:00::"
] |
Supplementing the actual art are memorabilia - correspondence, diaries, books from the artist 's library, etc.. | Supplementing | {
"name": "supplement",
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"a supplementary component that improves capability",
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"add as a supplement to what seems insufficient"
] | [
"supplement%2:40:00::"
] |
All belong to the collection being given to Wilmington over a period of years by Mrs. Sloan, who has cherished such revelatory items ever since she first studied with Sloan at the Art Students League, New York, in the 1920 's. | belong to | {
"name": "belong_to",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"be a part or adjunct"
]
} | [
"be a part or adjunct"
] | [
"belong_to%2:42:00::"
] |
All belong to the collection being given to Wilmington over a period of years by Mrs. Sloan, who has cherished such revelatory items ever since she first studied with Sloan at the Art Students League, New York, in the 1920 's. | given | {
"name": "give",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length",
"cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense",
"be the cause or source of",
"transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody",
"conve... | [
"give as a present; make a gift of"
] | [
"give%2:40:01::"
] |
All belong to the collection being given to Wilmington over a period of years by Mrs. Sloan, who has cherished such revelatory items ever since she first studied with Sloan at the Art Students League, New York, in the 1920 's. | cherished | {
"name": "cherish",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"be fond of; be attached to"
]
} | [
"be fond of; be attached to"
] | [
"cherish%2:37:00::"
] |
All belong to the collection being given to Wilmington over a period of years by Mrs. Sloan, who has cherished such revelatory items ever since she first studied with Sloan at the Art Students League, New York, in the 1920 's. | studied | {
"name": "study",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a detailed critical inspection",
"applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)",
"a written document describing the findings of some individual or group",
"a state of deep mental absorption",
"a room used for re... | [
"be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning"
] | [
"study%2:31:03::"
] |
To enable students and the public to spot Sloan forgeries, the Delaware Art Center ( according to its director, Bruce St. John ) will maintain a complete file of photographs of all Sloan works, as well as a card index file. | enable | {
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"sense_definitions_list": [
"render capable or able for some task"
]
} | [
"render capable or able for some task"
] | [
"enable%2:30:00::"
] |
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