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...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...
...excellent field for them in the search for a non-hydrous glue." Mechanical-minded Professor Koegel of the Karlsruhe Technical High School came forward with a new method of registering the authenticity of paintings: two wafer-thin sections are to be sawed from a steel cable, one inlaid in the painting, the other deposited in a central identification office. Microphotography will identify the adjacent surfaces of the cable...
...Vatican last week papal dignitaries claimed that with 800 telephones and 500 citizens the Papal State now has more telephones per capita than any other nation. In His Holiness' private study, they announced, electricians will soon set up a solid gold telephone of more than usual size, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, emblazoned with the papal arms on a great gold disc...