Word: benvenuto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Restorative treatment and X-ray research occupied the attention of the Technical Research department throughout the year. The chief undertaking in the restorative line was the retransference of a large Sienese painting of Girolamo di Benvenuto. In X-ray work, an extended study of early American painting was carried through...
Flutes have been made of wood, bamboo, ivory, jade, rubber, porcelain, crystalline glass, papier-mache, wax and human thigh bones. Flutes have been played by nose as well as by mouth. They were played by Cleopatra's father, by Benvenuto Cellini, Henry VIII, Frederick the Great, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oliver Goldsmith, George Washington, the first John Jacob Astor. Theobald Boehm, a Bavarian court musician, made the first metal flute in 1847. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, flute-playing physicist at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, was first to experiment with platinum, proving that the denser the metal...
Shot Put, 3.30 o'clock. Italian Entries: Lauro Bononcini, Benvenuto Mignani. American Entries: John Dean, '34 Harvard; Malcolm Millard, '36 Harvard; Frank Lovering, M.I.T.; James Thompson, M.I.T.; Guy Millbrandt, N.E.; Hadley...
Discus, 3.00 o'clock. Italian Entries: Giorgio Oberweger, Benvenuto Mignani. American Entries: John Dean, '34 Harvard; Malcolm Millard, '36 Harvard; Albert Greenlaw, M.I.T.; John Graham, M.I.T.; George Ray, M.I.T.; James Thompson, M.I.T.; Hadley, Northeastern...
...adventurer. I have tried to squeeze the juice of French characteristics into these pages and to make him as human as Henry, though his own kind of man. The final section is after Pavia with his imprisonment, his second love affair, and the life he builds up on which Benvenuto Cellini throws a big light. It tries to make out the meaning of the whole thing...