Word: 9th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apple-green breastplate, about six inches wide, carved in the 9th Century. Cut into the jade was the figure of a priest, or ruler, presiding over a circle of deities (see cut). To make it, the Mayan artist had labored with wooden bow drills, and smoothed his work down with abrasive sand. Carnegie Institution diggers found the breastplate and an assortment of gold-leaf ornaments, copper bells "and one alabaster vase amid the rotted bones in an ever-deepening series of graves...
Harry A. Phillips, Jr., of 1213 N. 9th St., Phoenix, Arizona, a graduate of Phoenix Union High School...
...Moslem conquerors in 1453. Throughout those dark ages Byzantium had blazed, fitfully bright, as the half-classical, half-oriental capital of pagan and Christian art alike. Baltimore's entire exhibition would have been barely enough to ornament a single villa for a favorite courtesan of the 9th Century Emperor Theophilus. In a day when Rome was a vast ruin, and Paris and London mud-walled towns, Theophilus was tearing down palaces in Byzantium (which Constantine I had renamed Constantinople) simply for the fun of planning new and better ones'. Theophilus liked such playthings as a pair of life...
...Mariaschin 2, Coppinger, Hamlen. Runs batted in-Mariaschin, Coppinger, Hamlen. Two-base hit-Coulson. Bases on balls-off Reilly 6, off Godin 1. Left on bases-Harvard 7. Double plays-Coulson, Fitz, and Coppinger; Coppinger and Fitz. Wild pitch-Reilly. Hits-off Reilly, 9 in 8 (none out in 9th); off Godin...
...veterans in the College who have an excess over veteran's allowance on the term bill due December 10th should report before Monday, December 9th to Weld Hall, Room 16 if they wish to have the excess charge paid by the Veterans Administration...