Word: kiln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...covered roads to Plymouth, where the snow now lies about four feet deep. Recently the Colonel arranged to lease his sugar lot, because he will be unable to harvest the maple sugar this year since he has lost the use of his legs. The sugar bush, known as "Lime Kiln Lot," because of an old lime kiln that stands on it, is really the property of the President, having been willed to him by his grandfather, Galuchia Coolidge...
...Fogg Art Museum of Harvard has sent an expedition under Langdon Warner, recently of Pennsylvania, to west China to study ancient and medieval Chinese art treasures, including the kiln sites of the Sung dynasty (10th century) and Buddhist rock grottoes of the 5th century. Duncan McDougall, son of the psychologist, is in the party. Other expeditions from Boston, Washington, and Chicago museums are in China, and an American archeological school may be opened at Peking, similar to those at Rome, Athens, Jerusalem. Rubbings, photographs and measurements of early architecture in danger of decay will be taken...