Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Standing 21 1-2 inches in height and measuring 8 inches in diameter, the trophy was made in London in 1795 by Aldridge, a recorded silversmith of the period of George III. It bears the inscription, "The House trophy of Harvard College awarded annually to the House excelling in all...
The lot included 18 miniatures by Jean & François Clouet; 75 by the 18th Century's master miniaturist, Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin; 56 by the British master, Richard Cosway; and one called Group of Five Persons in a Landscape said to be the only miniature ever painted by...
In Chicago newshawks were barred from Mr. Cutten's door which bears the name "Chicago Perforating Co." His friends were sure that the speculator who, once a $7-a-week stockboy in Chicago's Marshall Field's, had made $1,500,000 in corn in a single...
In the next room toy airplanes are being demonstrated. What could be better for that fishing trip in Nova Scotia than a nice toy gilder? Here is another rifle range, bordered by sleeping wild beasts. Beyond, two very discouraged brown bears are trying to stare down their gaping audience.
A healthy U. S. oyster bears about 16,000,000 young. Biologists compute that if all the offspring of a single oyster should survive they would confuse the solar system. Within five generations one oyster's offspring, closely packed together, would bulk eight times as large as the earth...