Word: mosaics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Julius Caesar re-peopled it with Italian freedmen. Since 1896 the American School of Classical Studies has been digging on the site. Last season the School's director, Richard Stillwell of Princeton, reported excavation of a building which was evidently the headquarters of a great banking & shipping union. Elaborate mosaic floors were found intact, one depicting a female figure astride a Triton, accompanied by cupids straddling bull-headed marine monsters. Evidently those ancient traders did not rely entirely on their own sagacity, because in the offices was a shrine where the concessionaires might worship...
...spot, the peasant had smashed up his find. But Digger Campbell went ahead to unearth greater treasures: a Greek theatre with an 80-ft. stage which inscriptions indicated was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, a life-size alabaster statue, probably of Hadrian, and a villa with remarkable mosaic floors. One design, composed of glass cubes tinted in pastel shades, showed a male and a female figure, representing Autumn and Harvest, reclining on a couch where they were served by a personification of Wine. "Among the finest antique work ever discovered," cried Professor Campbell...
...U.S.S.R. today is a bizzarre mosaic of the primitive and the new, done in starting colors. It is a land of the living and dying-those whom the revolution benefits or cannot kill and those whom it has deemed by exile or loss of privileges to slow death. There are the new workers on expansion projects who enjoy undreamed of prosperity, living in cabins, enjoying double food rations or even riding in automobiles and there are the ironically named "settler specialists" whose homes and property have been taken from them and who "specialize" in digging holes to live in. Despite...
...Much was said in the hearings about the so-called failure of NRA to cure un employment and produce recovery. That charge also flows from an omission to recognize that NRA is only one piece in the whole mosaic of the President's recovery program...
...marble bust of Augustus, first Roman Emperor, intact except for the tip of the nose. Still another was a Mycenaean sepulchre containing a "very unusual" gold signet ring and three skeletons. On the site of old Corinth, Princeton's Professor Richard Stillwell was excited when he uncovered a mosaic floor 31 by 24 ft., laid by Romans of the empire period. Its central panel depicted a palm-bearing athlete and a seated figure of Eutychia. In the nearby temple of Aesculapius, Patron of Healing, Professor Stillwell's men found terra cotta models of parts of the human body...