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...scenic beauties of the United States he cannot say too much. The Grand Canyon inspires him. He characterizes it as "a sort of landscape Day of Judgment . . . not a show place, a beauty spot, but a revelation . . ." The beauties and peace of Southern California appear in his mind in bas relief against the horrors of the artificiality and superficiality which he finds in Hollywood...
This box was excavated by natives at Tell Abu-Maria, a village 20 miles west of Mosul. Another recent purchase is a collection of South-Arabian antiquities, including twelve short inscriptions on stone and small bas-reliefs on red sandstone...
...ruins of jungle-covered Angkor, lost from the 15th to the 19th Century, impressed him deeply, inspired him to serious study of their artistic achievements, their magnificent, detailed bas-reliefs and sculptured towers. The central buildings of Angkor Wat, a mile square, rising almost as high as the tower of Notre Dame in Paris and built about the same time, he decided must be one of the loveliest pieces of architecture in the world, the most perfect building, except for Christopher Wren's Greenwich Hospital, that he had ever seen...
...farm aid bill differs from the invalidated AAA program in that it (1 double the benefits to farmers, 2 includes only cotton and grain, 3 provides that benefits be pai only to those who sign contracts with the Government, 4 provides benefits on the bas of total yield per acre, 5 will pay benefits on the basis of soil control...
Wood, Wood, Wood. Soon passengers were chattering and bandying compliments about the feature of the Queen Mary most of them at once liked best, the frank and "shippy" use of every imaginable kind of wood in her walls, panels, bas reliefs and sculptures. Among more than 50 kinds of wood, alert fanciers assisted by Cunard handbooks were soon spotting avoidire, petula, zebrano, bubinga, makore, tiger oak, patapsko, peroba, pomla, blackbean. Some of the wood had been sprayed with aluminum glaze and gleamed like silver. Definitely and handsomely the keynote of the Queen Mary's modernistic decoration is wood, wood...