Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first among: 231, Atkinson, Cornell; 410, Black, Leland Standford; 495, Gardner, Yale; 230, Gouinlock, Cornell; 304, Libbey, Dartmouth; 102, Norris, California. Height, 12ft...
...early German architectural sculpture. Romanesque sculpture and architecture are fully brought to view by the Hildesheim monuments, the Augsburg bronze gates, the Braunsehweig Lion, the Wechselburg pulpit and Crucifixion groups, the Strassburg Death of Mary, the sculptures from Bamberg cathedral, and the wonderful Golden Gate of Freiberg. Of the height of mediaeval sculpture represented in our museum it may suffice to single out the colossal Rood-screen and the twelve statues of Founders of Naumburg cathedral; and here again it may be pointed out that no other museum anywhere contains as full a reproduction of this extraordinary group of monuments...
...Africa long before it was known to civilization. The Makonde and Ambo tribes fasten the doors of their houses with these locks. They are large, and clumsily made of wood. The tumblers are about an inch in diameter, and when the door is unlocked, are raised to the proper height by means of a clumsy key with corresponding projections...
...francs. Present day prophets the "wise one", predict a day when French authors will be obliged to conceal the fact that their work was "Crowned",--after this "disease" has run its logical course. The dimculty today is that the "disease", apparently, is not yet as its height...
When the play itself was first produced in France, several eminent critics declared that in this work Sacha Guitry had attained the height of his literary career...