Word: columbian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbian Limited (Columbia). The record company says that this piece "can be used as realistic live background sounds for model and toy trains, or enjoyed for the pleasant excitement train sounds can give." Save for some transition dialogue by two children, and the conductor's calls, the recording is all train, chugs relentlessly for two sides...
Responses from four Harvard faculty members contacted last night, to the blast levelled at college professors by a Columbian sociologist ranged from partially complimentary to damning. C. Wright Mills, in his new book entitled "White Collar," branded college professors as being narrow, plebeian, and unimaginative, and criticized the graduate schools' mechanical conferring of degrees...
Part of the north wall is taken up with Rivera's gloomy conception of Mexican history. To him it is symbolized by three things: a pre-Columbian temple with a bloody sacrificial altar before it, a "pagan-Christian" temple with an altar surmounted by a cross, and a "pagan-Christian-capitalist" temple with the altar this time surmounted by a dollar sign...
...most superb School-of-Paris collections ever made, the 1,000-item, $2,000,000 life-work of Walter Arensberg, 72, rich California scholar, and his wife Louise. Their collection, which fills their servantless Los Angeles house from floor to ceiling (and which includes pre-Columbian sculpture), will move to Philadelphia as soon as the museum readies 19 new rooms...
Accurately dated (by tree rings) as undoubtedly pre-Columbian is an Indian pueblo from which the Smithsonian Institution got a diseased vertebra. Dr. Tobin's diagnosis: tuberculosis. Another revealing item (because cancer was, and still is, rare among Indians): a pre-Columbian pelvis which showed that its original owner suffered from a spreading carcinoma of the prostate...