Word: eights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sketch abstract geometry at Chichén-Itzà, Chariot so impressed the Carnegie archeologists that he was retained for two years, entrusted with writing the expedition's report on Maya art. Meanwhile, Chariot's own work drifted away from the furiously propagandizing Rivera school. After eight years in Mexico he went north to Manhattan, has lived there since. Last week at the Charles L. Morgan Galleries, Manhattanites enjoyed an exhibition of the best recent paintings by this prodigal son of the Mexican Renaissance. Composed in refinements of the squat, circular Maya forms, sophisticated, inventive, winning, to many...
...disturbed the ceremony as curtains parted to reveal the late handsome Field Marshal George Alexander Eugene Douglas, Earl Haig in conservative bronze. Conservative was the mildest word many British artists had for this third effort of Sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman, A. R. A., who has been badgered for eight years about his designs. His version of the field marshal's cavalry horse was once described by Lady Haig as "monstrous." She also considered it unnatural that the field marshal's head should be hatless. From the ceremony last week, performed by the Duke of Gloucester in the presence...
Sunspots appear to be gigantic whirlpools of gas erupting at the solar surface. Many are big enough to engulf dozens of planets the size of Earth. They wax and wane in cycles averaging a little over eleven years, although some intervals have been as short as eight years, others as long as 16. The cause of sunspots is not known, but it is suspected that periodic shifts in the gravitational pulls of the planets may have something to do with it. The whole sun seems to be disturbed by active spots; more heat is radiated by the sun at such...
...After eight days of close questioning, Father Balaban made a partial confession, said he had hoped to raise money to return to Yugoslavia...
Handicapping U. S. polo players started in 1888, twelve years after Publisher James Gordon Bennett brought polo from England as a pastime for his wealthy friends, and two years before eight teams of moneyed Easterners got together and formed the U. S. Polo Association. Some of the best of the association's 86 member clubs are in the West, but until this year the East has had complete control of U. S. polo. When Robert Early Strawbridge Jr., a seven-goal player, son of the vice president of Philadelphia's Strawbridge & Clothier department store, became chairman...