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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...canser, yielded from Harvard excavations in 1927 and 1928, comes from the ruins of Nuzi, Iraq, 200 miles north of Bagdad. The city of Nuzi was destroyed by fire about 1500 B. C. and apparently was never rebuilt. The censer was found in a building which had probably been a temple or sanctuary on the principal mound of the ancient city and was used for the burning of incense before the gods. The city may have suffered destruction with the rise of Assyria...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS and CRITIQUES | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...again resorts to the "aside," which he revived for Strange Interlude, and, at times, to the stark staccato of the new school. These make for cloudiness but the play frequently transcends its uncertainty with moments of eerie suspense. And the dia log is often shot through with a fine fire of poetry. It is played against elemental backgrounds designed by Lee Simonson which do much to soften its rough edges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...ordered his soldiers to fire into a crowd of workers - that was what the Governor (I. V. Kochalov) did not like to remember. The growth of his fear, of the indignation of the people, and the hatred toward him developing for personal reasons in the minds of a governess and a scab, were originally thought out by Leonid Andreyev, Russia's great, mad dramatist and story writer. Director A. Protozanov seems to feel with Andreyev that psychology is, in the long run, more important to art than politics. Shots - the Emperor's aide-de-camp taking a dose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...second period found Harvard milling around deep in its opponent's territory, maintaining a steady fire on the enemy cage. With the stanza half gone, Giddens took a pass from A. S. Bigelow '30, weaved his way from right to left clear of the points, and sent the disc into the net on a backhand shot to knot the count...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SKATERS CONQUER CLUBMEN IN THIRD CONTEST | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

...motion until they have no movement left. But their energy is not lost. It goes into other waves which may bump and merge and thereby strengthen each other. Electrons and protons form and attract each other. They create atoms of matter, the atoms molecules, the molecules earth, water, air. Fire (heat) is one effect of their interaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Einstein's Field Theory | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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