Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Praising the Lord but not passing the ammunition" is the modernistic unofficial slogan of the clergymen now in training for active duty with the armed forces in the Chaplain School, headquarters, Germanic Museum...
...erstwhile geometrician were to follow any one of the infinitude of tangents he can plot around the well-known circle, it would be just as likely as not that he would find himself, perhaps a trifle bewildered, at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the northern wing of the University Museum way down on Oxford Street. And being there, it is equally possible (and also, for the sake of this treatise) that he might seek out the library at the museum...
...thousands of volumes therein. These people, their friends call them curators, also know something about comparative zoology, and they delight in tracking down crustaecea, plodding through the pisces, and going "with gun and camera through the Alimentary Canal." Such bliss can only be found at the Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the great modern U.S. artists, is having her first retrospective museum show-not at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, but at Chicago's Art Institute...
...CATCH ME-Richard Powell-Simon & Schuster ($2). Two sets of villains, one Hitlerite, the other indigenous, join forces in this effervescent, farcical tale to strip a Philadelphia museum of its furniture collection. A young Main Line antique dealer and his bride spoil the robbery...