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Word: continentals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Leighton will trace, with many illustrations, the history of the art in Europe, from the days when the pilgrims bought a woodcut as a memento of a saint's shrine, through Durer's illustrations to Revelations, down to its revival in the present times. It has now acquired a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLARE LEIGHTON TO LECTURE MONDAY ON WOOD ENGRAVING | 3/1/1929 | See Source »

Professor Clark has already done pioneer work on the northeastern coast of Australia. In 1913 under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he conducted investigations at Torres Strait and discovered some new significant facts concerning the migration of marine animals to the island continent. Last Spring he was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXTENSIVE RESEARCH PLANNED IN STUDY OF MARINE ANIMAL LIFE | 2/26/1929 | See Source »

Ancient civilizations remind most of us at once of Egypt and Mesopotamia, and even in America there are few who realize the extent of the culture that was developed on our own continent before the Europeans arrived. One of the most interesting of these civilizations was that of the Mayas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

We think that when all these changes have been completed, we shall have supplied the Division with an unequaled teaching implement which will enable them to make Harvard even more definitely the chief center of anthropological study and instruction on this continent.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Director of Peabody Museum Maps His Reorganization Campaign | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

South America has no endowed school for the teaching of general aeronautics. With the poor development of land transportation, there is a great opportunity for planes to carry passengers, mail and express over the greater part of the continent. This enterprising air transport companies are beginning to do-largely with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Tale of Two Women | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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