Word: mittens
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...State legislature in 1859 for an institution that would not only advance "science, art, philosophy, and letters," but would also form various collections, including "artistic models, books, drawings, pictures and statues." In time, the decorative arts collection grew to 80,000 items, ranging from a 2,300-year-old mitten from China to the world's best collection of medieval fabrics. It has Persian calligraphy, English silver, tapestries, ceramics, furniture, wallpaper, works in glass, enamel and wood. Its library may be unsurpassed in the U.S., and its collection of drawings and prints is superb. Its Winslow Homers alone-more...
...discovery came as a surprise David G. Mitten, teaching fellow in Fine Arts, had driven a trench from the main avenue of Sardis to find the colonnade of a Roman gymnasium. Instead, he found a building nearly 60 feet wide and more than 120 feet long, paved with mosaics, revetted with marble, and featuring a triple gate between an eastern and a western hall...
...both professors of elementary education at Colorado State College, relies on a system of phonics based on the sound of initial consonants to help a child associate words he knows orally with the way the words look on a page. ("Listen as I say the names of these things: mitten, man. They start the same way. Put these two picture cards in this box because their names begin alike...
...random digs at classics clubs ("I, connoisseur of good reading, friend of con noisseurs of good reading everywhere"), sloppy diction ("what one weather prophet on the radio calls 'inner mitten' showers"), "personalized" writing ("As for us, we would as lief Simoniz our grandmother as personalize our writing"), usually blend good fun with good sense. Full of engaging tidbits, the "dog's breakfast" does not offer much to chew, but more than enough to tickle the taste buds...
...week's end, a Chinese newsman sized up the two peace delegations: "The Reds are offering an iron glove, the Nationalists a soft fur mitten...