Word: excelsior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn Museum is packing each item of its great Egyptian archeological collection-from tiny scarabs to half-ton granite statues-in jeweler's batting, sealing it with gummed tape, laying it in excelsior in a box, then in more excelsior in a wooden crate, which is again packed and boxed. Inca and other ancient textiles too fragile for shipment are being packed and stored within the museum...
...Langdon Burwell '41 of Porterville, New York; Clayton J. Clawson '41, of Madera, California; Dwight D. Taylor, Jr. '41, of Excelsior, Minnesota; Roger A. Cunningham '42, of Kent, Ohio; Roger C. Henselman '42, of Medford, Oregon...
...Anita Derby last February. At 8-to-1 were Texan Robert Kleberg's Dispose, big horse of Florida's winter season, and J. Frederick Byers' Robert Morris, a 200-to-1 shot in the winter books-before he outran half a dozen older horses in the Excelsior Handicap at Jamaica last fortnight...
Christopher J. Sotirakis '41, Clarksburg, W. Va.; Douglas C. Stenerson '42, St. Paul, Minn.; Robert B. Stokley '41, Galion, O.; Malcolm W. P. Strandberg '41, Tacoma, Wash.; Kingdon W. Swayne '41, George School, Pa.; Dwight D. Taylor, Jr. '41, Excelsior, Minn.; Elmer H. Taylor '42, Frederick, III.; Richard N. Thomas '42, Omaha, Nebr.; James B. Tobias '41, Fremont, O.; Hugh G. Voorhies, Jr. '42, San Diego, Calif.; John A. Washington '43, Clarksburg, W. Va.; Robert K. Weary '43, Junction City, Kans.; George W. Webber '42, Des Moines, Ia.; Richard L. Weinberg '43, Memphis, Tenn.; Emanuel G. Weiss '41, Elkins Park...
...round of ceremonial calls in Rome. First of 24 resident Cardinals on Mr. Taylor's list was Gennaro Cardinal Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, Dean of the Sacred College. Spry at 88, this Prince of the Church returned the visit promptly, arrived at Mr. Taylor's hotel (the Excelsior) flanked by two grooms, who went up in the elevator with him bearing two big lighted candles...