Word: marred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge appointed General John J. Pershing to be Chairman of the Tacna-Arica Plebiscite Commission which, it was hoped, would end the 40-year old quarrel between Chile and Peru (TIME, Mar...
Said the late Willard L. Metcalf, famed artist (TIME, Mar. 23), in his will: "I instruct my executors to destroy any paintings which, in their judgment, they may deem for the best interests of my estate to have destroyed." Accordingly his executors, Architect Charles A. Platt, Illustrator Wallace Morgan, Art Dealer Albert Milch, last week burned 17 pictures which they regarded as below his best standard, set aside 12 others for future destruction. No adolescent attempts, experiments, unfinished work will mar the reputation of Artist Metcalf, as they do the fame of so many artists, musicians, writers...
William Beebe, with his marine expedition aboard the steamship A returns (TIME, Feb. 16, Mar. 9, Mar. 16), having perused the Sargasso Sea amid high waves, and drawn up from great depth small fishes-red, black, silver, transparent, luminous, stalk-eyed, snake-jawed; but being continuously disturbed by high waves which scattered the Sargassum weed, secured in one haul in his last day there five Amphioxii (believed to have been the intermediate stage between invertibrate and vertibrate life). They have a cartilaginous backbone. The value of the catch is that hitherto Amphioxii have seldom been known far from shore...
...Roosevelts-Kermit and Theordore Jr.-who had planned to make an incursion into Turkestan to hunt wild animals for the Field Museum of Chicago (TIME, Mar. 16), suffered a set-back in their plans because the Viceroy of India objected that a large Swedish party had already gone through Hunza Pass and had taken nearly all of the available native carriers. Permission is to be sought to use another pass through the Himalayas to Turkestan and the Pamir region...
Press reports declared that Anton Flettner, inventor of the rotorship (TIME, Nov. 17, Dec. 8, Feb. 16, Mar. 2), was about to erect a windmill on a tower 650 ft. high with two arms, each 150 ft. long...