Word: millets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some extent, least on our list of local artistic events at Harvard, is the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. M. Warburg, on view at the Busch-Reisinger Museum. There are some excellent works in the collection: Picasso's famous Blue Boy, some fine drawings by Cezanne, Millet and Seymour Reminick, and some first rate sculpture by Lehmbruck, Matisse, Lachaise, Epstein and, of all people, Paul Gauguin. These works alone are worthy of a trip to the Busch's isolated headquarters on Kirkland and Divinity Avenues. Generally, however, the rather uneven quality of the exhibition tends to ensure...
...since. Supported by the Quemoy Military Defense Command, the seven-days-a-week paper reserves most of its run-5,500 copies-for free distribution to troops, sells the balance (at 1? a copy, 25? a month) to villagers in Quemoy, oyster fishermen in North Mountain, sweet potato and millet farmers in South Mountain. About $250 in monthly advertising revenue comes from Formosa merchants eager to fill front-line mail orders...
After the Reds proclaimed their shortlived ceasefire, the villagers emerged from underground, and farmers went back to the fields to harvest what was left of their millet, sweet potatoes and peanuts. "If there is a lack of anything," Red China's Defense Minister Marshal Peng Teh-huai broadcast to the people of Quemoy, "just tell us and we shall give it to you. It is time now to turn from foe to friend...
...both tests, parakeets were fed on a schedule of two days on millet seed enriched with Aureomycin, one day on plain feed. After 15 days, virtually all became virus-free. Hartz Mountain will begin marketing the treated feed in September, and parakeet owners can relax at last. Dr. Meyer's next project: a medicated feed for table birds, especially turkeys, which are also subject to ornithosis epidemics (TIME, March...
That Daphni is a starred stop for travelers is to the credit of French Archaeologist Gabriel Millet, who in 1893 persuaded Greek authorities to save what remained of Daphni's mosaics. The ancient monastery is now a museum, and its mosaics, cleaned and repaired last year, can be seen in something approaching their original freshness (see color page...