Word: mongolism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yurt a circular wood hut modeled after a Mongol hut made of skins. The first yurt, built last Fall in the Radcliffe Yard, was displaced by the new Education School library. The present yurt is safely located near the corner of Garden St. and Appian Way and differs from the last yurt in having a sod-covered roof...
...Chicago, Dr. Henry L. Nadler reported, his department has "managed" 150 pregnancies on the basis of such cell studies. In 14 cases, abortion was recommended, and in 13 cases the abortion was carried out. In the 14th, the mother of one mongoloid child said she would rather have another mongol than an abortion-and she did. In the other 136 cases, no abortion was recommended, and all the babies born were normal. This procedure, Nadler emphasized, neither encourages abortions nor increases their incidence. What it does is enable couples capable of transmitting genetic defects who desperately want normal children...
November 8: To add momentary beauty to an Ed School lot eventually destined to be filled by a $6 million library, an Ed School student built a wooden Mongol structure called a "yurt." He taught classes in crates inside and said he had lived in yurts before...
Coperthwaite said he saw some pictures of Mongol huts called yurts, most of which are made of skins, in National Geographic a few years ago. He then adapted them to America's climate and building materials. "I call it a yurt out of appreciation to the Mongols," he said...
Before the Mongols, porcelain was glazed in one color. Under the Yuan rulers, blue-and-white vessels were developed, and became widely popular. One of the 32 pieces in the Cleveland show belonged to the 17th century Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan, builder of India's Taj Mahal. Among other exports on exhibit are Chinese silks found in Arab tombs in Africa and early carved cinnebar lacquerware, lent by a Japanese temple. But it was in defiance of Mongol tastes that one of the greatest of China's arts-scroll painting-made the largest advance of all. The most...