Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Machine Age Understanding...
Digging down through the debris before finding Egbert was like journeying into the past with a time machine. The cave was a very desirable parcel of Stone Age real estate. Family after family had lived and worked in its shelter, gradually raising the floor level with dirt and refuse. In the upper layers tools and weapons were comparatively sophisticated. Grinding stones showed that Neolithic exquisites had used pigments for painting or cosmetics. Lower down, artifacts were cruder...
...Joseph J.. Koenig was a successful manufacturer of gift-shop novelties, with a pleasant middle age ahead of him. At that point, instead of taking up golf or Sunday painting, he decided that he might enjoy going to college-he never...
...other kakemono is realistic, and proves that Kyosai was a sharp-eyed son of Japan's feudal age, which was, like Europe's, an age of falconry. It also shows why the wind god is in such a hurry: a naturalistically painted eagle, sudden as a thunderclap, is swooping down...
...account, Painter Kyosai was a problem child. He disliked cakes and toys, liked paddling after frogs. His first studied drawing, he recalled, was a frog he sketched in 1834-at the age of three...