Word: eycks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Ten Eyck of Syracuse has appointed a committee of three: Tom Bolles of Harvard, Harrison Sanford of Cornell, and Charles Logg of Rutgers...
...Chicago, goat-whiskered little William Ten Eyck Ensign, who two years ago had persuaded Chicago architects that he had vast financial backing, had inveigled them into drawing up preliminary plans for a $50,000,000 skyscraper, announced that he had invented: 1) a death ray, 2) a new bearing metal called "Oman" that requires no greasing, 3) a wingless, propellerless airplane that uses water for fuel, can fly 1,300 miles an hour. Inventor Ensign said he would complete his first plane next fall, fly around the world in a day. He then plans to make a more leisurely trip...
...Valentiner went too far with intimate arrangement only once, crowding five El Grecos into a cubicle. Chief triumphs of the show were in his own favorite field of Flemish and Dutch painting. In the eyes of connoisseurs, the Ince Hall Madonna (see cut) by Jan van Eyck was worth an exhibition all by itself. This tiny (8¾ inches by 6 inches) painting on wood came all the way from the National Gallery in Melbourne, Australia, where it is valued at $250,000. Until 1922 it lurked, under a heavy scum of varnish, in the murk of Ince Hall, near...
...solid guilds. They had rules of long apprenticeship, traditions of craft, stiff standards for 'masters." Flemings were lucky, because this medieval system lasted at least a century longer among them than anywhere else, led to the great technical discovery of oil painting and its first masters-Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, Hans Memling, Roger van der Weyden...
...They are a shrewd mixture of interesting fact, mental games and useful information. But The Popular Educator is more than a game or pastime. On its faculty are Harvard, Yale, University of Chicago professors, such famed educators as Historian Harry Elmer Barnes, Astronomer George Clyde Fisher, Archeologist Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, Historian Allan Nevins, Dramatist Walter Prichard Eaton, Philosopher Harry Allen Overstreet. Their students include college graduates as well as men and women who never went to high school. In its first six months, National Educational Alliance has made a small profit, but President Crawley does not expect...