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...Newer, airier, and brighter, the nine-year-old Animal Farm of the Division of Infectious Diseases occupies on adjoining building. This house serves the School of Public Health, the Department of Bacteriology, the Children's Medical Center, the Children's Hospital, and the Polio Foundation...
Because one church was not enough to honor the meekest of medieval men, the gothic builders of Assisi built two churches to St. Francis, one on top of the other. Princess Giovanna decreed last week that her marriage should take place not in the larger, airier upper church, but in the lower, holier one beneath, whose high altar covers the saint's tomb...
...Troy; a chant for the transmutation of metals under the larches of Paradise (Middle Ages) ; dirges for a Plantagenet, for Pan, for Nikoptis at Akr Caar; praise for Ysolt, for Evanoe, for thigh-embarked Daphne; a song of the Bowmen of Shu (China, 1100 B. C.) ; Browningesque (but far airier) narratives of Provence, her knights and troubadours. "Little naked and impudent songs," he has called his work. Perhaps "greatest living jongleur" would define him better, since he relies so upon borrowed accents, fantastic metres, the dress of other days. Once, at least, has this jongleur been more than little...
...some respects the present quarters of the reading room are an improvement on its previous ones. They are lighter and airier and much more commodious; but whether the corporation will go to the extent of heating the whole of lower Massachusetts for the use of the reading room during the winter season is a momentous question, whose answer is very doubtful. Another and more serious objection to Massachusetts as the permanent quarters of the reading room is that readers are continually disturbed and inconvenienced by the ever-recurring examinations which are held there. This objection might be considerably obviated...