Word: aurel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buddhist sculpture excavated in 1924 in Mongolia is placed on public exhibition for the first time, and is comprised of some 15 polychrome statuettes of unbaked clay which were discovered in the sand-buried city of Kara Khoto. The city was first correctly identified by Sir Aurel Stein; the Fogg Museum expedition of 1924 dug there and found, in addition to sculptures and fragments of unusual thirteenth-century frescos, a tenth-century bronze mirror. This is one of the very few Chinese mirrors taken from the earth by responsible persons, and is in exceptional condition...
...fought at the time of the siege of the Peking Legation in 1900, but who had since become my friend. Of course I was eager to know more about the find. When I reached Tun-Huang, I was first somewhat disappointed to hear that my friend Sir Aurel Stein, head of the British expedition, had already been in Tun-huang ahead of me and had taken away loads of the precious documents. But my disillusion did not last long. When I entered the cave containing the manuscripts. I saw that most of them were still there. Of the 15000 scrolls...
Besides the manuscripts, Sir Aurel Stein and myself have brought back from that same cave hundreds of paintings on silk, on hemp, and on paper, embroideries, early book bindings, printed books, and images, most of them of local make, but some also of high artistic value and which had been made at the capital or in some great centers. The prints are the earliest prints in existence and the paintings almost the only Chinese paintings prior to the eleventh century and about the date of which there cannot be any doubt
Morenz is stoop shouldered with skinny legs. Possessed of that tiny fraction of speed which slips him around a twisting enemy, he is the highest scorer in either the International or American Divisions of big league hockey. Statistics issued last week give Morenz 22 goals. His teammate Aurel Joliat has 20. The highest scorer in the American Division is Hay, Detroit...