Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Buddhist sculpture excavated in 1924 in Mongolia is placed on public exhibition for the first time, and is comprised of some 15 polychrome statuettes of unbaked clay which were discovered in the sand-buried city of Kara Khoto. The city was first correctly identified by Sir Aurel Stein; the...
Commander Grady has been examining the situation in Shepherd Hall for the last few days; if his present plans are carried out, his department will occupy the entire first floor together with some rooms in the rear of the second floor. The rest of the building, however, will not be...
Many a musical person in Boston, Chicago and Manhattan felt his nose a little out of joint last week on reading a widespread report of Concert Manager George Engles. Laporte, Ind., said Manager Engles, not Boston, Chicago or Manhattan, is "the most musical city in the U. S." Nine per...
In Carnegie Hall, as if for Kreisler or Paderewski, a great crowd gathered. Its chief motive seemed to be curiosity. Its reward was an exhibition of incredibly bad singing. But few seemed to mind. The bulk of the audience applauded loudly, encouraged the kittenish Walska ways, the heaving surface sorrows...
One of these, a subaltern, loved Lois- genuinely; but not pugnaciously enough to defy her aunt's disapproval: he had neither riches nor pride of family, his relatives lived vaguely in Surrey, and that, thought Aunt Myra, would never do. Lois, for her part, loved, but did not bestir...