Word: inlaid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with head disproportionately large, the woman stands holding her hands before her breast. She wears the traditional garment of sheepskin and her hair, gathered in a heavy roll, is confined by a fillet of lapis lazuli inlay. The eyes are of shell and lapis lazuli and the eyebrows are inlaid with bituminous paste." Thus did Dr. Charles Leonard Woolley report one of his latest finds. A popeyed, club-footed little figure of alabaster, 10 in. high, found in a soldier's grave with its head touching the blade of the warrior's bronze ax, it was the first...
...Tokyo to prove that wily General Ma really had been killed, and earned the official blessing of the Son of Heaven. Early last week word that General Ma had been seen in Moscow reached the U. S. Last week he was alive and visible in Berlin. Seated behind an inlaid tea table in Berlin's Chinese Legation, General Ma received correspondents, announced once again his intention of carrying on the fight against Japan - by continuing round the world to Shanghai. Said...
...furniture is loaned and in splendid did fashion depicts the simpler Sheraton style of the eighteenth century. Constructed of mahogany, it is inlaid with maple and bass wood...
...pray the Government to show pity on us poor people. We pray that the Government will show its pleasure by permitting us to enlist again in the army and the police." Lastly the old chief made traditional "presents of fidelity" to Lord Willingdon-a long musket (its butt inlaid with gold), a set of carved daggers, some mountain goats and some fat-tailed sheep...
...tomb is practically the same shape as the wooden one but one-third higher, larger, built of 10,000 tons of red and black granite. Over the bronze entrance doors is a 50-ton monolith of black granite with the word LENIN inlaid in letters of red porphyry. Inside the doors, a giant hammer and sickle, carved in stone. Embalmed Lenin lies in an underground room 30 ft. square and 30 ft. high on a slab of black granite, under a convex bubble of glass. Just behind the tomb are the bodies of the Soviet "apostles" including two from...