Word: copper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are also several fine Schongauers, and a number of prints by the greatest German master, Durer. Among the latter are woodcuts from the great series--the Apocalypse, Great Passion and Small passion--one of his six etchings, one of his four dry-points, and a number of the copper-plate: Adam and Eve, St. Terome in his Cell, Nelancholia and the Knight, Death and the Devil...
...materials which will be used in the construction of the building are a white local stone with a creamy tint and red brick. The roof will be of blue slate with copper flashings and it will have three rows of small dormers, giving a pleasing national touch. The belfry tower, which will contain special chimes and the front portal will have many gilded details characteristic of Brabant...
...time of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, the Indian goldsmiths of Oaxaca were perhaps unsurpassed by any in the world. Many other tribes from Mexico to Chile were also expert workers. They were proficient in the arts of casting, hammering, and embossing gold, silver, and copper, and had perfected the art of plating the baser metal with pure gold...
...view. It is characteristic of such a course, that the members either get a great deal out of it, or nothing at all. It is a course given by a teacher; a man who makes his contact, not "by iron wires, of great resistance and little net current, copper wires that transmit well;" but, "by wireless contact of souls...
...drive for funds to prosper unless the driver can point with pride to teams whose victories on the embattled field are worthy of an architectural setting? So long as Carlinvilles think to gain pride and pelf by putting one over on the rival Taylorvilles and the Taylorvilles copper the game; so long as stadiums are passionately desired and graduates susceptible only to the appeal pragmatical--just so long will the Middle West endure temptations unknown to the effete East...