Word: bolognas
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...year Columbus sighted America. (Good Friday, as his enemies loved to remind the world, was the legendary birthday of the Antichrist.) Mature and restive at 15, he quit home. He worked, during the next few years, as a servant in Rome, a street singer, a hostler in Bologna, a moneylender's agent, tax collector, mule driver, hangman's assistant, miller, courier, pimp, mountebank, swindler, galley slave. At 24 he got into the service of Agostino Chigi, one of Rome's biggest business men. He had already published a book and was watching his chance. It came...
...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 While he was speaking in Bologna, it was announced in Rome that Italian garrisons were being withdrawn from the Dodecanese Islands off Greece, a gesture in the Allies' favor.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...