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Word: miter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps San Ludovico did not represent Donatello's art at its best, but the soft-flowing vestments, meditative young head, and miter adorned with crystals and blue enameling looked good to U.S. gallerygoers. Their money looked mighty good to the Italians who would use it to restore war-damaged landmarks back in Florence. "The art of Florence belongs to the whole world," said one of them last week and, so the world should contribute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gold Beneath the Skin | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...semicircle of chairs, amid banked roses, heather and myrtle in the Palace music room, sat the family, a handful of old retainers, a sprinkling of ladies and gentlemen in waiting, and the godparents. Resplendent in gold cope and miter before a silver-gilt font, the Archbishop of Canterbury reached out gingerly to take the baby, swathed in four yards of silk and Honiton lace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Christening | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...personage addressed, wearing a miter and a white brocaded cope with gold embroidery, walked slowly to the 700-year-old marble Chair of St. Augustine, sat gingerly down on its red cushion. With this simple act the Rt. Hon. and Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 57, last week became the 99th Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Enthronement | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...13th Patriarch of the Holy Orthodox Eastern Catholic and Apostolic Church. This week he was crowned in the illuminated forest which arc lights and laurel decorations had made of Bogoyavlensk Cathedral. Unseen silver bells tinkled, rose to full tones as the Patriarch entered, wearing a white veil and miter, and a green silk robe with white and red stripes and golden cords over the shoulders. With the end of the elaborate service, Alexei's religious authority over 100,000,000 souls became absolute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 13th Patriarch | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

Ordinary, earth-bound citizens can find: gasoline-electric generators, rubber hose, portable air compressors, tube bending tables, electric concrete drills, assorted hammers, miter boxes, saws, marlin spikes, drills and bits, wrenches, pliers, nippers, turpentine, castor oil, hinges, screws, nuts, bolts, washers ("Just What You've Been Waiting For!")-even typewriter ribbons and photograph albums. All goods are sold on the basis of bids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Catalogue on Request | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

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