Word: furnishings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meaning of Wealth." Before the 52nd Street house was sold. Plant called in Architect Guy Lowell, supervising architect of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, to design the new mansion, including a library of Jacobean carved-oak paneling (see cut). To furnish the town house, Antique Dealer Arthur Vernay ransacked his own collection, sent scouts throughout Europe. The result has borne well the test of time. For the jade, Chinese porcelains, 18th-century French furniture, paneling, fixtures. Royal Beauvais tapestries by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, paintings by Watteau, Gainsborough, Lawrence, Romney and Raeburn. the current market will pay back...
Minus the benefit of the customary holiday games, the Crimson basketball team will undergo its severest test to date as it opens 1957 with three tough games this week. M.I.T. is first on the agenda, facing the varsity tonight in the I.A.B. at 8:30. Columbia and Pennsylvania will furnish opposition away this weekend...
Naturally Bad. For the remaining years of his life, Sade alternated between orgiastic freedom and protracted prison terms. He indulged in perversion, flagellation and more ingenious tortures, made such extraordinary demands on Paris' prostitutes that the police ordered procurers not to furnish him with girls. One woman complained that he had lured her to a villa outside Paris, stripped her naked and bound her to a bed, beat her with switches, slashed her with a knife, and poured wax in the wounds. Exiled to his estate in Provence, Sade organized a private harem of both sexes. In a foray...
...week (when youngsters ride the fire wagon instead of learning to read), or that favorite excrescence on school programs (and budgets): driver training . . . We allow ourself one more question . . . If your school resembles a clambake or decathlon, if it seems more likely to bewilder and daze than to sharpen, furnish, and organize young minds, whose, ultimately, is the fault...
...Compass Island is a 17,600-ton converted merchantman, commanded by James A. Dare. Without reference to any shore-based aids, the Ship's Inertial Navigational System (SINS), designed by M.I.T.'s Dr. Charles S. Draper, will furnish continuous position reports, the location of true north and the ship's speed. Essentially a superrefined gyroscopic system, SINS is self-correcting and will be continuously checked for accuracy against a star-tracker...