Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago a shy, white-thatched little man with drooping mustaches and a twinkle in his eye went to Chicago to exhibit his best beef cattle in the International Life Stock Exposition. His Briarcliff Thickset, a sleek black Aberdeen Angus, was named grand champion steer. Oakleigh Thorne, gentleman farmer, was pleased as Punch. A retired capitalist, a onetime president of Manhattan's Corporation Trust Co., he had been raising cattle since 1918 when he bought a 4,000 acre farm in Dutchess County, N. Y. Eastern dairymen had pooh-poohed the idea of large-scale beef cattle raising...
Early next month when all automobile makers begin exhibiting their new cars in 1934's motor shows, Henry Ford will not be among them. He does not exhibit at such shows. But last week he invited a bevy of newshawks to his engineering laboratory at Dearborn, to the Dearborn Inn, served them lunch with beer, showed them his 1934 model...
Students in Archaeology will give a gallery talk this afternoon in the Balcony Room of the Fogg Art Museum at 3 o'clock in connection with the Etruscan Art Exhibit. The speakers, from Harvard and Radcliffe, are students of George H. Chase, Hudson Professor of Archaeology and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. One of the pieces to be shown is the famous Morgan statuette of a girl which has been lent by the Metropolitan Museum in New York...
...exhibit of pottery shows the Etruscans to follow closely along the usual lines of the Greek potters. Granurns for the ashes of the dead, and numerous grotesque heads used on the eaves of the houses, round out the exhibition...
...presented the Smithsonian Institution in Washington with a two-foot replica of George Washington's home at Mt. Vernon, made of mother-of-pearl and 13,000 pearls. A gift of Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese cultivated pearl tycoon, it had been part of his firm's exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair...