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...Penney home is a spacious Italian Renaissance villa of white limestone with a low roof of apricot-colored tiles. It overlooks Biscayne Bay, is set in the midst of tropical greenery cut by serpentine driveways. On the estate is a shallow goldfish pool bright with water blossoms, a mosaic tiled swimming pool, a putting green and an observatory with a little cupola like those of Mohammedan minarets...
Some 5,000 Canadian and U. S. scientists closed their classes and laboratories last week, and hastened to Manhattan for the regular Christmas convocation of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Some 2,000 had papers to read on their 15 specialties.* Reading those papers, the mosaic of 1928 developments in pure and applied science, would place the workers on little eminences among their colleagues. Better, it would put them near the Olympians of their profession who attended sessions with them, men like...
...cities & cultures, languages, religions, ethics & morals, stimulates further astonishment and elation. These are fruits of contact with perhaps the most colossal mind of our age, a mind which forces wondrous patterns on the chaos of history, which perceives equally stirring significances in Greek , the French revolution, a Byzantine mosaic...
...Another find of the season this one made at Chicen. Itza. consisted of a magnificent turquoise mosaic plaque. The work at Chicen Itza has centered in a group o" 1,000 columns and more particularly at the Temple of Warriors...
...Mayan Mosaic (Carnegie Institution). In the "Temple of the Warriors" at Chichenitza, stupendous Mayan ruin in Yucatan, President John Campbell Merriam and Dr. Alfred Vincent Kidder of the Carnegie Institution watched amazed as Earl Morris, their associate on the expedition, scraped away the filth that for centuries had hidden a beautiful mosaic disc containing several hundred pieces of polished turquoise. It had been lying under the carved and painted Mayan altar discovered two years ago and is the "most artistic and elaborate of all known relics of Mayan civilization...