Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After thinking it over, the Cuyahoga County chapter of the Gold Star Mothers of America passed an angry resolution: "Public display of such a figure is objectionable as obscene to many of our citizens . . ." Agreed the Catholic War Veterans: "[An] architectural abortion...
...formidable that he used to split it up, as an aid to memory, into the necessary sections and subsections of his sermons? And where is the beard of Austrian Burgomaster Hans Steininger-the one in which he caught his toe, tripped and broke his neck? (It is on display, as a matter of fact, in the Braunau museum; length...
...attended reorientation lectures on the new government and the social structure, the crust of fear and suspicion softened; tight, drawn faces began to relax. Smiling repatriates in new grey clothes crowded around local exhibits in the prefectural exhibition building. One happy man saw his child's drawing on display. Another found his family's picture in a large album and burst into tears. Said one wide-eyed, thin-faced soldier: "They never told us it would be like this...
...ramshackle houses, but in comparison with other big cities, no slums. Its great boulevards wind through miles of windblown trees, bright flowers and sweeping, emerald-green lawns. It is a Western town, with the memory of Deadwood and Virginia City in its bones; in its love of display, its detachment from the past and its obsession with its own destiny, it is simply striking the attitude of the gold seeker and the trail blazer...
Last week the museum put the mammoth's remains on display. The trunk, left front leg and part of the head were stuffed into an ordinary 8-cu.-ft. home freezer. Although the Russians have found whole mammoths in Siberia, these were the first frozen parts of a mammoth to be exhibited...