Word: glassful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trocquer, recently French Minister of Public Works (1920-25). As Vice President they chose M. Jules Cambon, distinguished statesman and brother of beloved Paul Cambon (1843-1524) who was for 22 years French Ambassador to His Britannic Majesty. When the Committee adjourned to banquet, Jules Cambon, raised a sparkling glass and cried: "On the day the tunnel is completed England and France will have found the real road to peace...
...Sarto, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, de Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Cranach, El Greco, Goya, Millet, Monet, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes, Re noir, Pissarro, Corot, Poussin, Ingres, Cezanne, Mary Cassatt and Degas. If the mood was not for pictures, there were sundry other objets d'art - marbles by Donatello, Cyprian glass, Italian faience, Japanese lacquers, Hispano-Moresque plaques, and a collection of weird Degas excursions into clay...
...provide every convenience for the merchants. The seven story pile was surmounted by a dome which a periodical of the day describes as "elegant and spacious, . . . 100 feet 10 inches circumference, the base protected by a handsome railing, within which is a seat and box, containing a perspective glass, used daily to ascertain the shipping entering the harbor...
...means of a prism placed over the object glass of the telescope, photographs of stellar spectra have been taken at Harvard for the last forty years. The light of any star of sufficient brightness in the field of view is spread out into a band, showing characteristics by which the spectra can be classified into various groups...
...such a way as to show the bones of the animal, in the position in which, they were washed in the bed of an ancient river. The slab was found in a prairie, which was formerly the bed of this river. The slab is to be placed in a glass case, the prepared surface having been varnished as a preservative...