Word: fire
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Venetian art. Color is still predominant; hardness of line and statuesqueness of form melt away before its influence. Bellini attracts on account of his honest and earnest painting of saints and madonnas. His characters are dignified and possessed of angelic qualities. Truth and elegance mark his style, but not fire or splendor...
This early work has the appearance of youth, it seems undeveloped, unfinished in style, but it brings with these qualities the fire, earnestness and frankness of youthful enthusiasm. The constant aim of these independent workers was to paint what they saw as they saw it. Art in this early period of the Renaissance is comparable to a great uncut diamond which appears in the sixteenth century cut and ready for polish, but it is not until the seventeenth century that we see the jewel in its perfection. After the seventeenth century the diamond degenerates into a mere imitation...
...most important event mentioned is the completion of the new fire-proof brick building and the transfer to it of about 30,000 stellar photographs. Three expeditions have been sent out to the Harvard station in Peru during the past year and two have already returned while the third has begun work successfully. The entire income of the Paine fund, one of the largest gifts ever made to astronomy, is this year for the first time available for the use of the observatory. Notwithstanding this important increase in the resources, the expenses due to additional undertakings have also become greater...
...evidence that man lived there at the same time with the animals whose bones were found, such as deer, tortoise, elk, rabbit and many others. It is probable that the human beings who lived there had killed those animals for food, since the bones that were scattered about the fire-places were rarely gnawed by animals. Another important discovery was that of the extinct peccary, which has been found also in Hartman's cave, and of teeth of the tapir. The nature of the human remains and the fact that they are found only in one layer, prove that...
There was a slight fire in the dressing room of the Medical School yesterday...