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Recent acquisitions in the Fogg Art Museum have included not only paintings, but objects in the field of the decorative arts, for textiles of various types, including a fragment of early sixteenth century tapestry, have lately been presented to the Museum...
Professor Kittredge has presented to the Library a book which Professor Norton gave him in 1903, in which is contained the first edition of the "Wade Fragment," a sixteenth century reference to a tale used by Chaucer...
...here there is a lacuna in the manuscript. Whether or not the author was seized with a fatal disease, lacked a rhyme scheme, lost interest those are questions which the reader must answer for himself. Suffice to say that in this fragment we have one of the loviest examples of the old Welsh. The translation is practically a literal one with the exception of the word "But", which is written as "However" (from the German "Sed" etc. Vide Med. Phil...
Anguished but cool, the Fascist Commander whipped out his revolver, took careful aim, fired. A bullet sped, clipping a fragment out of the stone column behind which Communist Missiroli was hiding. Again the Fascist Commander took a careful bead, pulled the trigger. Communist Missiroli, with a cry of pain and rage, dropped dead...
...soughed in the piles and spouted up through the planks of the wharf on the first night of Bound East for Cardiff but the sea was never kinder to Eugene O'Neill than his first producer, "Jig" Cook, to whom the poets of Greece gave a fragment of Apollo's temple at Delphi for a tombstone, for whom Greek athletes have revived the Parthian games...