Word: fra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...written, who also will sing it at the Vienna premiere on June 11, the birthday of the composer; Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf (Johnny Strikes Up) with a black-faced comedian for the leading character; Respighi's Campana Sommersa (The Sunken Bell) and Pizzetti's Fra Gherardo. . . . That the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Directors have abandoned the three-million-dollar site on Fifty-seventh Street acquired by Otto H. Kahn two years ago for the new Metropolitan Opera House. Absolute friendliness, Mr. Kahn insists, prevails on the Board. Plans for the new house will proceed...
...wood and stone coliseum capable of seating 300,000 persons. Mr. Burchell will explain the further plans for excavations in Pompell and Herculaneum and for the draining of a lake whose bottom holds the pleasure large of the Emperor Tiberins, sunk in the second century of the Christian Fra...
...time in the world's history has the art of painting risen to greater heights than in the period known as the Italian Renaissance; in no place was it more assiduously practiced than in Florence. Here lived and worked such men as Fra Angellco, Castagno, Venocchio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo. Andrea del Sarto names that are above all others in the art of painting. At 11 o'clock this morning, in the New Fogg Museum, Professor Edgell will discuss the lives and works of the earlier members of the Florentine School...
...first printed historical treatise on accounting, which is one of the rarest and earliest of business books, has been donated to the Business Historical Society, it was announced yesterday. This book, the "Summa de Arithmetica" by Fra Lucas Pacioli, was published in Venice in 1494. The volume is regarded as one of the greatest prizes a business library can possess...
...Fra Lucas Pacioli took a great deal of the accounting information contained in his book from the educated Greek slaves who did the mathematical work of Italy during the Roman era. He makes no pretense of denying the source of his information, but assorts his statistics for carrying on business from the various systems accessible to him. The astounding part of his work is that it contains the essense of the accounting system as it is used today. Many methods have not changed at all since business first came to be recognized as a form of activity best carried...