Word: eycks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most controversial paper at the meeting was read by Dr. Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, professor of Oriental history at the University of Chicago. A decade ago he began writing a history of the Near East, found such disagreement among scholars over the origins of Christianity that he "was compelled to devote precious years to the investigation of the New Testament for myself." Historian Olmstead's findings made most of his Bib Lit colleagues sputter. They think the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke) give the truest picture of Christ's life, assign a much later date to St. John...
Visitors who crowded the Beaux-Arts Gallery had to admit that Portugal, during its peak century and a half, had been almost as good at painting as it was at exploring. Connoisseurs found these primitives strongly influenced by the Flemish school founded about 1410 by famed Painter Hubert van Eyck. Some of the early Portuguese masters, like Nuno Gonçalves and Cristóvão de Figueiredo, were subtle portraitists who could have swapped paint brushes & pallettes with all but the best of the Flemish painters. But the Portuguese types por trayed, the thinner paint on the canvases...
Reggie van Ten Eyck Schuyler was in his cups, but still that didn't stop him from sympathizing with Mr. Hans Croyen, who had just murdered his baby and consequently was very sad. This is the end, Croyen, and the reason is that I am so sad," said Reggie van Ten Eyck Roosevelt...