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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...huge walls stand up 35 feet in the air, making a picturesque sight with their weathered, unbaked bricks. The remains of the bastion form a particularly good example of medieval fortification. We did a great deal of digging here, unearthing a lot of stucco sculpture, with the color still fresh, a magnificent bronze mirror, and some very good fragments of fresco-work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINDS BUDDHIST ART IN WILDS OF CHINA | 5/8/1924 | See Source »

...huge walls stand up 35 feet in the air, making a picturesque sight with their weathered, unbaked bricks. The remains of the bastion form a particularly good example of medieval fortification. We did a great deal of digging here, unearthing a lot of stucco sculpture, with the color still fresh, a magnificent bronze mirror, and some very good fragments of fresco-work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ONE INNING SPOILS ROBINSON'S RECORD | 5/8/1924 | See Source »

...Terrible Typewriter" is the subject of one of the most recent outbursts of literary gentlemen, with a goodly number damning it with artistic fervor and almost as many arguing that its effect, if any upon the author's output is entirely beneficial Obviously like the color of ink this is a personal matter. But some of the more passionate are inclined to blame all the evils of modern literature free verse and the machine like quality of the American newspaper on the unoffending but nevertheless pernicious mechanism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MECHANICAL--AND DAMNED | 5/3/1924 | See Source »

...Chemistry enters with every article of furniture in the drawing room" said Bishop Lawrence. "The varied shades of color in your dress, the window hangings and the wall paper have been created by chemical dyes Of greater importance is the product of chemistry in your cooking and in medicine. Every physician is a chemist, and behind his diagnosis and treatment is the chemical laboratory. And if we ever have another war, which God forbid, chemistry may be the deciding factor in the safety of the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BISHOP LAWRENCE TELLS WOMEN HARVARD'S NEEDS | 4/29/1924 | See Source »

...will make them leaders in the teaching of Art to leaders, and teachers throughout the country. And here again the work is done not from books but by a study of the originals, and such work in the detection of forgery, the preservation of art treasures, and sympathy with color and form, as will make the homes of our people, the humblest of them, beautiful in proportion, design and color...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BISHOP LAWRENCE TELLS WOMEN HARVARD'S NEEDS | 4/29/1924 | See Source »

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