Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fifth Commandment of the Mosaic Code is not the only one which is not enforced by law in the U. S.: Enforcement by law of Nos. I and I would be unconstitutional. Legal treatment of Nos. Ill and IV is recommended by Blue Law societies. No. X has only moral support. Nos. VI to IX, inclusive, are enforced by law, with the partial exception...
...University authorities announced yesterday that Dr. W. H. Weston, assistant professor of botany at the University, has been granted leave of absence for the second half of the current academic year, to continue in Cuba some phases of the study and control of the sugar cane Mosaic diseases. Dr. Weston received his master's degree from the University in 1912 and his Ph.D. in 1915. He began his study of the sugar cane diseases with Dr. East at Soledad last February, and continued last summer in Cuba with the Tropical Plant Research Foundation...
...Yucatan, work has been given up until after the rainy season in uncovering the great Mayan City of Chichenitza. A great mosaic floor, several reservoirs lined with stone, and the "court of the thousand columns" were partly cleared, but work is to be continued for perhaps ten years more...
...reigning Pope, Pius XI, will carry out the desires of the late Pope Benedict XV in presenting to the Catholic University of Washington, D. C., a picture of the Immaculate Conception, executed in mosaic at the Vatican. For model he has chosen Murillo's The Purest Fair One, which hangs in the Prado, Madrid...
...columns 10 feet high encrusted with mosaic work and mother- of-pearl...