Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estate was to go into a charitable trust to finance the design of a new phonetic alphabet for the English-speaking people. But just in case the courts might throw out such a trust, Shaw named three alternate beneficiaries who would divide his money between them: the British Museum, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin...
...upped the estate's value to $2,000,000. By last month so much money was involved that Britain's Public Trustee Office decided to test the will in court. Was the rewriting of the alphabet really a legitimate charity? The attorney general said yes; the British Museum, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and National Gallery of Ireland said...
...Lerici's new techniques have located 60 tombs, twelve of which were opened. They contained about 100 museum-worthy objects, including jars of a whitish powder believed to be 2,500-year-old flour. Most interesting find was a decorated vase, probably imported from Greece in the 7th century B.C. In the next three months Lerici intends to photograph the interiors of 300 more tombs and hopes to find at least 1,000 more museum pieces...
...takes with him "a well-grown, sagacious, fine specimen" of a chimpanzee named Emily. All goes very well for a while ("In England the Primate takes precedence of all but Royal Dukes"). But Emily, no ordinary chimp, knows how to read. She takes a course in the British Museum, and she thinks she had better start at the beginning with The Origin of Species. Soon, except that she likes to enter her flat by climbing the drainpipe, and that she has a humble and loving heart (at the mission school she had heard the hymn, "He that is low need...
...Tokyo and Washington, which Freer Gallery Expert Harold Stern enthusiastically calls "without doubt one of the finest private collections in the world." Included were pottery and sculpture from the Han, Tang, Sung and Ming dynasties, a Sesshu landscape, Ashikaga screens, and a primitive warrior sculpture judged by Cleveland Art Museum Curator Sherman Lee to be "one of the finest Chinese clay sculptures in America...