Word: annos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instruments had telltale modern coats of lacquer or labels with inks and paper of recent manufacture. In one violin, the police lab even found particles of nylon. A concertmaster brought Iviglia a "Stradivarius" (for which he had paid $13,000) with a label reading "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis faciebat Anno 1703." Underneath, another label was found reading "Pietro Antonio della Costa, Treviso, Anno 1764." Both labels were false. A Swiss collector brought in a 1716 "Stradivarius" for which she had paid $30,000, was informed by Iviglia's office that she owned "a very handsome instrument dating back to about...
...this project is based on the belief that after twelve such plans the country will not have returned circle to her present condition. Thus the cyclical calendar is being replaced, of necessity, by a chronological (which is not synonymous with cyclical, as your article so erroneously implies), dated Anno Domini, as the scientific world civilization overtakes India. Perhaps this fact is symbolic; the lectures will attempt to show that...
...down in the chronicle of the San Domenico convent at Fiesole are the simple facts about Fra Angelico: in 1407 "Fr. Joannes Petri de Mugello iuxta Vichium, optimus pictor, qui multas tabulas et parietes in diversis locis pinxit, accepit habitum clericorum in hoc conventu . . . et in sequenti anno fecit professionem."* To this, Vasari adds only that Fra Giovanni's name was Guido, that he was born in 1387, and entered the Dominican monastery "chiefly for the sake of his soul and for his peace of mind...
Assi ille debe haber sparniate un mille per anno...
...gets the man over. It will delight Truman's admirers, and it will cause those who deplore him to gnash their teeth. Nobody, however, can deny that it is a strange and wonderful fact that the man pictured in Mr. President can be President of the U.S., anno Domini...