Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most highly prized item is the Morgan loan, a thirteenth century bestiary, the "Description of Animals" of Ibn Bakhtishu, the earliest known manuscript of the Mongol period of Persian art. The book was copied for the Emperor Ghazan Khan, of the Genghis Khan dynasty, and contains 94 colored drawings of animal subjects...
...Another item is the so-called "Zafarnams," a history of the conqueror Tamurlane, completed in the fifteenth century, and containing the signatures of three of Persia's great emperors, Akbar, Jahangir, and Shah Jahan. The volume contains six double-page paintings by Bihzad, greatest of Persian miniature artists. It is a loan from Robert Garrett, of Baltimore...
...House waitress that she might be required to wear a white uniform for the evening meal, was groundless, according to the Manager's office, for no such drastic change is contemplated. The reason for the abandonment of the head bands is simply to save an additional laundry item for the employees, according to Westcott...
...Nazi Winter Relief has 10,000,000 needy Germans card indexed. Its staff numbers 1,400 who expend yearly 400,000,000 marks ($160,680,000). To take one item, the Nazi Winter Relief distributed last year gratis 492,000 tons of coal, or one-third of the entire coal produce of the Saar Basin...
...second item is indefinable. It is a metal contrivance consisting of a large rounded case, a long shaft, and a few wheels. The first janitor says that it is a mowing machine while the sceptic claims it is the start of an automobile...