Word: canale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Embroideries, etchings by Gaya and Canal, prints by Durer and Holbein, a 3000-year old censer from Iraq and an antiphonary from Italy, partially represent the scope of an exhibition first opened at the Fogg Art Museum to display recent accessions...
...important gift from Philip Hofer '21 of Cleveland includes rare and beautiful etchings of Gaya, his "Caprichos", "Proverbios", and "Tauromaquia" in early editions, which well show the artist's skill in satire, delightfully portrayed by a combination of etchings and aquatint. There are also two works of Antonio Canal which are characteristic of his brilliant handling of sunlight and atmospheric effect...
...Debated a resolution to survey the interoceanic canal route through Nicaragua...
Surgery. Spinal anesthesia by new chemicals. Anesthesia per rectum by ether with olive oil, particularly useful where exophthalmic goitre makes a patient nervous. Human liver found to exercise a profound protective influence against harmful products entering the blood by way of the intestinal canal. Recognition that brain tumors may develop suddenly and rapidly, that the electric cautery knife makes possible more complete removal of brain and spinal cord tumors...
...north-&-south line with each other. Both coasts lie between 70° and 80° West Longitude. Down part of that geographical corridor started Colonel Lindbergh last week-from New York to Miami to Havana, thence across the Caribbean to British Honduras, thence through Central American countries to the Canal Zone- carrying the first trans-Caribbean airmail. The day he left Miami, Feb. 4, was his 2/th birthday...