Word: clays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clay on which the picture was originally painted is then scraped from the back side and the inner surface of the paint is cleansed. A new base of clay on presswood is affixed and the muslin-tissue support is dissolved from the face. Thus only the pigment, about a sixteenth of an inch thick, is kept intact during the process of restoration...
...most respected men in the neighborhood but he would have been wiser to keep his political opinions to him self. The Bristowes were nobodies but they were on the right side of the fence, and they had a game-warden in the family. It all started with Clay Goodhue's arrest for snaring fish on his own father's property. That led to a suspended sentence and two fistfights. But when officers of the law came to free the family pet, Grandma Goodhue's caged red bird, shot guns were taken off the wall. The posse that...
...break the impasse caused by the worthlessness of this question, Oxford has proposed the resolution: "that the first function of a biographer is to reveal feet of clay." Is this bit of dilettantism the best topic two liberal universities can find to discuss before an international audience? Are Harvard and Oxford so secluded from the world, so steeped in the academic cloister, that they can find no more fundamental problem to argue? Such a triviality may serve for a literary tea, but so important an event as the Harvard-Oxford debate merits a more vital subject. Harvard and Oxford hold...
...received the telegram sent two days ago by Frederick DcW. Bolman '35, president of the Harvard group, which suggested a split team debate on the question of censorship of the press, cabled that they would like to discuss the merits of the proposal that biography should "reveal feet of clay...
...Oxford cable reads as follows: "Impossible Oxford concede. Oxford and BBC propose "The first function of a biographer is to reveal feet of clay. Oxford wishes negative." The NBC added "We are holding up any action on your message of the thirteenth until we get your reaction to this suggestion from Oxford...