Word: display
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speakers at the annual convention of the American Association of School Administrators in Cleveland. All this oratory proved too much even for the superintendents. By week's end they had found something more amusing to talk about: a little book called The Saber-Tooth Curriculum-which, discovered on display in the exhibitors' hall, wowed the convention...
...fresco from a cave at Tun Huang in Western China:--a Head of a Bodhisattva, and Three Old Men. These two paintings have that strange, unmistakable violet hue which results when the flesh tints have faded. From Mr. Warner's own collection a number of items are being displayed. In addition to a Japanese priest's mask and two gilt bronzes, there is a T'and painting (or print) of the priest Hsuan Tsang, carrying on his back the Holy Books that brought Buddhism to China. It is interesting and perhaps surprising that the Oriental culture display also includes...
Instruments with which Harvard's engineering scientists are pushing man's conquest of his physical environment,--among atoms and microorganisms, soils and metals, radio and electricity, in sound, the air, and motion,--will be on display to members of the University and their guests in an open house tomorrow night from 7 to 11 o'clock, sponsored by the Harvard Engineering Society...
...Believe it or Not" Display...
...elementary laws of motion are brought to bear in the "Believe it or not" display of the dynamics laboratory, in which visitors may observe the action of gyroscopes, pendulums, the force of gravity, and other features...