Word: fe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This was immediately founded, with Professor Norton as President, and has ever since remained one of the important organizations for the prosecution of research in archaeology and the fine arts. Largely through the Institute the schools for American students in Athens, Rome, Jerusalem, Bagdad, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, were founded. The Journal of the Institute is one of the leading archaeological periodicals, and it has been active in the organization of expeditions, either alone or in collaboration with one of the foreign schools...
...Mezquita in Cordova and the Sainta Maria de La Sede in Seville, of those abroad, are far larger. Washington is like Notre Dame of Paris, Chartres, Rheims, Cologne and York cathedrals?famed less for size than for associations. In America there are notable cathedrals at Mexico City, Santa Fe and Montreal; and in Manhattan there is St. John the Divine...
Third prize ($500) was given to Andrew Dasburg of Santa Fe. He had painted a ' table, on which a vase was full of poppy petals, heaped on the canvas like the bright blood of an immortal...
...Their eyes like round sudden stars in the reflection of head- lights, feline debauchees parade on roads at night, killing birds and frightening motorists. Last week near Chillicothe, Ohio, such a fe- line debauchee squatted, yowling and jeering, on a road in front of Mrs. E. C. Hood who was driving her car. Mrs. Hood, startled by the sparkling eyes, drove her car over the side of a bridge, injuring herself, demolishing...
...Governors of Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico and their host, the Governor of Colorado, had little left to settle. Their states are in the upper basin of the Colorado River, "upper" meaning "up-stream," for the Colorado flows roughly southwest. Prior negotiations at Santa Fe, N. M., in 1922, had established the principle that, when the Colorado's torrent is entirely turned to human use, 50% of its volume will go to the upper basin states, 50% to the lower basin states. The four upper basin states then agreed on proportional allotments of their 50% among themselves. The lower basin...