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Word: ceilinged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marco Vatasso, a young lawyer from Turin, presented his student pass at the Vatican Library last week and waited quietly while a felt-slippered attendant brought him his books. On his way down to the reading room in the Sixtus V wing, he passed a workman and one of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Triumph of Worms | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

The bulk of the new structure consists of one large room with its ceiling three stories high. Into this chamber a complete three story building made of steel framework will be assembed during the coming vacation. This 'house within a house' construction will permit a greater degree of safety from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBSERVATORY ELL JUST COMPLETED | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

The doctor's laboratory is amazingly macabre. It is situated in a cavernous windmill on top of a small mountain. Having infused life into his monster by hoisting him up to the ceiling on an operating table, causing electricity to crackle from all quarters, the doctor (Colin Clive) is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 14, 1931 | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

The drawings from the Platt collection are of early modern and late modern origin, and are from the Italian, French, English, and German schools. Among the more important works in the exhibition are "Nude Studies" by Tintoretto, from the De Nicolo collection; "Death of the Baptist", "Rent on the Flight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 12/3/1931 | See Source »

But there was one amongst this happy group who, most regrettably, felt that he had work to do. He sat, part of each day, in a high studded gilt room staring at the ceiling through grey, opaque eyes; smoking long, thin Turkish cigarettes. Some men called him the Sphynx; he...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/2/1931 | See Source »

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