Word: inlay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people in Harvard know that the music department possesses a fine Dolmetsch Harpsichord. Of these people, a very few know that it now lies in a miserable state of disrepair, dried out by years of steam heat, so that the ivory inlay has half fallen out of its rosewood case. A very few know that quill tongues are broken and bolstered with felt, that its leather is rotten, that its legs are tied up with string, that its pedals are falling to pieces...
...chart. So Dr. Ryan designed his own. On a grey background the 32 teeth are shown 1) as they look from the front, with their roots outlined, 2) as they look from the inside of the mouth. On that design dentist or layman may clearly mark every peculiarity, filling, inlay, pivot tooth, bridge or plate in every mouth. Lest one human peculiarity escape attention of dental identificationists, Dr. Ryan pointed out that the shape of the face, roof of the mouth and the two upper front teeth usually correspond. A squarefaced man will have square upper front teeth, square mouth...
...bring out the delicate colorings of the Chinese pottery which are in most museums lost in the glare of a white-walled room. This is well illustrated in the Korean Room where there is much pottery from 5th and 13th century tombs. The vases and bowls have a unique inlay which the Chinese were never able to achieve. This inlay gives them an extra richness when it is seen with the faint blues and greens of the ordinary glazed ware. This extra richness and beautiful coloring could never be realized except in a room which has perfect display facilities...
Iraq- "Squat and thickset, 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...
...First dollar inlay was in the Palmer House barber shop, whence the idea spread to saloons all over the land...