Word: extant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opened a most important department: the Berthold Hochschild Gallery of New York Architecture. Dedicated to preserving every aspect of the history of New York City, the museum has acquired in the 13 years since its founding a vast collection of drawings, plans, models of important New York buildings, both extant and vanished. Through the children of the late Berthold Hochschild, one of the founders of American Metal Co., a room soon to be doubled in size has been provided to show a portion of these publicly. On exhibit in the Hochschild architecture gallery were four microscopically exact models, made...
...Saturday also showed a unique change from their Monday morning condition in former years. They were badly whittled away, and decidedly weak on their foundations, but no effort had been made to take them down or to do more than get a "souvenir of the game." Due to the extant of the whittling, new uprights, costing...
...Christ Bearing the Cross." Unless they have been warned, they are likely to pass by the Basel "Crucifixion", or the Stuppach Madonna, or even the two important works at Munich--"St. Erasmus and St. Mauritius", and "The Mocking of Christ". Yet, taken together with the thirty-odd drawings extant, and a few other paintings, these constitute the complete works of one of Germany's three greatest artists--Gruenewald, the most German in style of them...
...Great Salt, pictured above. Coming into the possession of the College into the possession of the College in 1644, the bequest of Richard Harris, an early resident and Fellow Commoner and the brother-in-law of Henry Dunster, this is the oldest bit of College Silver now extant. As fingers were used entirely while eating, the dainty students would wipe their fingers (before dipping them into the salt) upon the napkin which rested on the three knobs which may be seen on the rim. The napkin also aided in keeping flies from the salt...
Nearly 1,000 trusts, extant and defunct, will be examined before SEC sends its report to Congress next January with recommendations for regulatory legislation. In charge is Commissioner Robert E. Healy, the grey-haired Vermont Republican who conducted most of the six-year investigation of public utility holding companies for the Federal Trade Commission. His first lieutenant is Paul P. Gourrich, a demon statistician who used to work for Kuhn, Loeb & Co. If his German accent were not so pronounced, Paul Gourrich might have been Commissioner Healy's inquisitor. Asking the questions last week was David Schenker, a bright...