Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indias" was first published at Toledo in 1526 in the form of a summary entitled "La Natural Hystoria de las Indias." The first copy of the "Historia General de las Indias" was published in 1535 at Seville. Written in a diffuse style, it embodies a mass of curious information collected at first hand. This book, on exhibition now, ends with an epistle addressed, "Al reverendissimo e illustrissimo senor el cardenal de Espana don fray Garcia Fofre de Loaysa," and it is signed by the author...
...third and final special article, written by Mr. Rogge, discusses "The Differences in the Priority of the United States in Bankruptcy and Equity Receiverships." This points out the curious fact that it is of substantial value to the United States that assets of an insolvent debtor should be distributed in an equity receivership rather than in bankruptcy. To other creditors, on the other hand, it is advantageous that it should be done in bankruptcy. The article suggests a brief statute by which the differences could be eradicated...
Punctilious, sensitive Leslie Howard strikes a proper balance between the comic and serious aspects of Peter's career. Margalo Gillmore, late of the Theatre Guild, is his wide-eyed partner in supertemporal romance. These two extract fine philosophical nuance as well as fantasy from their curious roles. All three acts are laid in a Queen Anne drawing room, magnificently rendered by Sir Edwin Lutyens, famed British architect (TIME, Aug. 12), containing an easel originally owned by Sir Joshua Reynolds...
Pigmy hippopotamuses, red pigmy buffaloes, pigmy elephants, swift little hairy-horned okapi all lurk in the tangled, humid fastness of the Belgian Congo's deep Itura Forest. By few white men's eyes have these curious creatures ever been seen. Mr. & Mrs. Martin E. Johnson, famed intrepid jungleers, set off last week from Manhattan with eight motor cars, many tons of camp & photographic supplies, two batteries of sound-cinema equipment, two dozen automatic cameras, cinema cameras so that U. S. movie audiences may buzz with wonder at the sound and sight of the Congo's animal wonders...
...first western invasion since the late fall of 1920, Harvard will be exhibiting its football wares to a curious and expectant crowd. It is more than football, however, that will draw eighty thousand spectators into the Michigan stadium. To the alumni of the middle-west the team represents a vital connecting link between themselves and Harvard, and the Michigan adherents see the players in the light of emissaries from an ancient and famous college of the East to one of the out-standing universities of the middle-west...