Word: mold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sometimes the very efforts of scholars to save their archives were what destroyed them. Reports the Bulletin: "When the great library of the Chapter of St. Thomas [in France] was threatened, it was hurriedly evacuated for storage in a rural area. There the books were destroyed ... by rain, mold, rats, mice and insects." The library itself was never damaged...
...Brooklyn show's best things-a molded gold flask (see cut)-was made by the cire-perdue (lost wax) method, which the ancient Egyptians-and Benvenuto Cellini-also used. The flask was modeled in wax, then covered with clay. When the clay was baked, the wax melted and was drawn off. Molten gold was then poured into the baked clay mold...
...Beaver Country Day School was founded when John Dewey's ideas on progressive education were rearing their bumptious little heads. "Education generally was a pretty stale dish," recalls its headmaster. "Green mold is not limited to penicillin. Many a school has flourished in mold and called it tradition...
...well-heeled bobby-soxers (42 of Boston's current crop of 130 debs are Beaver girls) and succeeds pretty well in making scholars of them. But Beaver only paid off $10,000 of its $262,000 original mortgage. Last month a Boston bank, tired of the green mold forming around Beaver's I.O.U.s, threatened to foreclose. One alumna dumped her four children in the back of the car, made the rounds of friends to solicit funds...
...doctrine of "art for art's sake" has had rough sledding in Mexico. With Mexicans, it has been religious or social art that counts. Confectioners mold candy into shapes of skulls and flowers for feast-day celebrations. Muralists line public buildings with vehement histories of oppression and revolution. For the rest, nudes, still lifes, etc. were considered mere frilly decoration. In 1922 Mexico's Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors put the Mexican doctrine in writing, publicly repudiated "art for art's sake," and pledged themselves to paint murals "for the people." Among signers were Mexico...