Word: mosaics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reformed Jews, in the vanguard of the movement in the U. S. They met in Pittsburgh, drew up a "Platform" as a guide for Reformed Judaism, put their views on Zionism in paragraph No. 5. Further, their Platform rejected old Jewish ideas of bodily resurrection, of Gehenna and Eden. Mosaic and rabbinical laws of diet, priestly purity and dress the Reformed rabbis found incompatible with modern life. They staked their faith on "the indwelling of God in man," declared that modern scientific discoveries are not antagonistic with Jewish doctrine, saluted Christianity and Islam as daughter religions of Judaism...
...least happily wedded pairs. These 200 pairs and 100 divorced couples were given the Bernreuter Personality Inventory and the Strong Test of Vocational Interests, consisting in all of 545 questions, some banal, some trivial, some bizarre, but all shrewdly calculated to draw answers constituting in sum a significant mosaic of personality. The investigators then drew six portraits distinguishing the men & women of each of the three groups from the other...
...easily lives up to its motto: "The most beautiful subway in the world." Built, in the words of Transport Commissar Kaganovich, "to show people what the future will be like under Socialism." all the stations are panelled in rare marble, decorated with huge murals in fresco and mosaic, lit by solid bronze fixtures. The gleaming red-&-buff cars are staffed by attendants in red-&-blue uniforms...
...mysterious "mosaic disease" or "yellows" which attacks peach trees, tobacco, sugar cane, cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, corn, sugar beets, asters, dahlias et al. was found by Dr. Louis Otto Kunkel to be carried from plant to plant by a small insect called the leafhopper. Dr. Kunkel also discovered that the leafhopper very rarely flew more than three or four feet above the earth. Obvious leafhopper foil: a 4-ft. screen fence. In early autumn a plot of asters thus protected was only 20% diseased whereas 80% of the flowers just outside the fence were damaged. Last week Dr. Kunkel...
Stocky, barrel-chested. mop-haired Sculptor Barnard worked for 15 years on a project that has caused many of his esthetic friends to wince: a full-scale plaster model of an enormous War memorial arch which is yet to be translated into blue labradorite, embellished with a colored mosaic rainbow, rows of grave crosses in artificial perspective and an elaborate icing of gigantic white marble figures (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930; Nov. 27, 1933). Working like a beaver (his son estimates that he handles nearly 500 pounds of wet clay a day), he has been a recluse since the Armistice. Careful...