Word: finding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds, which lets ticket-buying prospectors keep any find under five carats, a Texas lady unearthed a 3.65-car. rock. She promptly named it the "Faubus Diamond" after the state's Governor Orval E. Faubus, of whom she is "a great admirer." The stone, naturally, was a white diamond...
Cavalcade can probably find enough new commercials to fill President Moore's promise of 13 free weeks. Whether the show will back up his argument that advertising is art is another question. But Moore is confident that he will find a sponsor willing to pay for the privilege of pushing other people's products...
This strange and splendid treasure has been touring the U.S., was on exhibition at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum last week. In August it will return to Turkey. The find opens a new chapter in the history of art, providing a missing link between the culture of the Euphrates basin and that of archaic Greece. Similarities in style show that Greek traders and marauders must have brought home in their hollow ships a mass of Phrygian treasure-which in turn helped shape Greek...
...ancient King Indradyumna, it is said, sought to find the Lord of the Universe-Jagannath, one of the names of Vishnu, the Preserver. After many hardships, it was miraculously revealed to him that Jagannath would come to him as a log of wood, and soon thereafter a huge log with strange markings appeared, floating in the Bay of Bengal near the city of Puri. The king ordered his carpenters to carve an image from it, but their chisels broke. At last the Lord Vishnu himself appeared, disguised as an old carpenter, and the king agreed...
...Hemingway: "'You were all right in there. How did you know what you'd find? There might have been a rat . . .' 'It was nothing,' the Colonel shrugged, doing it well, a thing not really usually done well at all . . . We sat with our brandies, keeping talking about style...