Word: bolognas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further afield, from archaic Greek vases to a surrealist canvas of a horse's head, surrounded by lilies and starfish. Best part of the show was its sculpture, which ranged from prancing pottery chargers of the Chinese T'ang Dynasty through the Renaissance bronzes of Giovanni da Bologna to contemporary U. S. Ceramist Waylande de Santis Gregory...
Goings-on in Italy backed up the belief that Il Duce would continue to play ball with both sides. While he was speaking in Bologna, it was announced in Rome that Italian garrisons were being withdrawn from the Dodecanese Islands off Greece, a gesture in the Allies' favor. A few days earlier Italy and Greece had both moved back from the Greco-Albanian frontier. Italy sent an Ambassador, Giuseppe Bastianini, to the Court of St. James's, where she has had none since June. Italy made no protest last week when the British stopped an Italian ship...
...kept the wheat crop close to last year's figure of 293,600,000 bushels though 4% more land was seeded. Quality was poor, too, and favorable weather would be needed even to equal official forecasts. Though in southern Italy recovery from rain and rust was quick, around Bologna 75% of the wheat was so dashed that machines could not be used and peasants were bringing out their sickles for a slow, back-breaking harvest by hand...
...pointed out the resemblance between Harvard's university government and that of the University of Bologna, the oldest European university. He said that Bologna is administered by a board of overseers and corporation almost identical to that of Harvard...
...Arrayed with scholarship and point in the quiet rooms of the Morgan Library were illuminated manuscripts, art objects and drawings from the 9th to the 17th Century, portraying the Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of Christ. Choice items: a recently acquired 14th-century missal illuminated by the great Niccolo da Bologna; a gold and enamel 12th-Century altar; Raphael's original drawing of the Agony in the Garden for a famed altarpiece owned by the Metropolitan Museum...