Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sheets exhibition, which opened in Los Angeles' State Exposition Building almost simultaneously with the first, showed something of his range and of his success. On the walls were menu covers for a steamship line, designs for his pastel-painted airports, drawings done as a LIFE war artist in India, silk-screen prints, lithographs and photographs of buildings on which he had collaborated, sculptures done for a chichi Hollywood bar, a huge restaurant mural in mosaic. "People think of me as a watercolorist," says Sheets, "because I've painted so many. Watercolors can be done in a hurry...
...Rattus rattus rattus) of ancient history invaded the granaries of Egypt, afflicted the Hebrews with plague, and are reported to have stimulated the Romans to import snakes to kill them. They reached England during the reign of the House of Hanover, and were therefore called "Hanoverian rats." In modern India, black rats infest lower-caste houses, where they are protected by religious sanctions...
...Mediterranean came the first news about the Arctic. In about 330 B.C., when Alexander the Great was marching on India and Aristotle was lecturing to his classes, Pytheas, a native of the Greek colony of Massilia (Marseille), sailed out through the Pillars of Hercules and turned north. After discovering Britain, he pushed on-to the Orkneys, to the Shetlands, perhaps even to Iceland. Then, like thousands after him in the next 2,200 years, Pytheas the Greek was halted by a dense world of ice. His account of his six years' voyage was later dismissed as balderdash...
...northeast passage. Warned that he would perish in the Arctic, Elizabethan Robert Thorne replied brusquely: "There is no land unhabitable, nor sea innavigable." So sure were these hardy Elizabethans of reaching their goal that they sheathed their cockleshell ships with lead, to protect the timbers from the worms of India...
Overseas seats of learning "adopted' by the Committee for this third world student relief drive are the universities in Athens, Peiping, Delhi, and Heidelberg. The school at East Punjab, India, was included, Robbins said, because W.S.S.F. officials felt that greatest support could be registered here for this slightly less dramatic but no less needy area...