Word: decays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stimulated by the menace to her art treasure imposed by the War. After the first Austrian bombardment of Venice, all her movable paintings were removed to the cities farther south and stored in vaults, while the immovable frescoes were piled high with sandbags. The canvases were found in serious decay, after years of neglect, almost ready to fall to pieces at a touch. Only the most painstaking care, covering the surfaces with invisible gauze and adhesive, and rolling them on wooden cylinders, preserved the Renaissance masterpieces from imminent destruction. Comparatively little damage was done in Venice by bombardment, because...
...Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem, made an appeal on behalf of the Patriarchate, at a luncheon of the American Committee on the Preservation of Sacred Places at the Hotel Pennsylvania, Manhattan, last week. It is not expected that America and England will allow the cradle of Christianity to suffer permanent decay. Richard the Lion Hearted would turn in his grave...
...century. Duncan McDougall, son of the psychologist, is in the party. Other expeditions from Boston, Washington, and Chicago museums are in China, and an American archeological school may be opened at Peking, similar to those at Rome, Athens, Jerusalem. Rubbings, photographs and measurements of early architecture in danger of decay will be taken...
...Biologics Club which will be open to all members of the University and of Radcliffe College will be held in Room 45 of the Zoological Laboratory at 4.45 o'clock that afternoon. Dr. C. W. Dodge will be the principal speaker, taking for his subject. "The Physiology of Wood Decay...
...that that study is peculiarly fitted to develop one indispensable habit of thought, one important method of approach to most classes of questions. It inculcates what is sometimes called the "genetic" point of view. It teaches us that almost nothing here below is fixed and static; that growth and decay, change and adjustment are as much the rule in the political, social, and intellectual world as in the physical and biological; and by studying all things as in process of "becoming", by emphasizing the ideas of development, continuity with the past, cause and effect, and the interplay of many different...