Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polychrome vessel with a painting of lima bean shoots on it. Another vessel is ornamented with a serpent pattern. A large female figures from Chancay shows the sophistication of Peruvian coastal art about 1200 A.D. Four smaller figurines showing costume types complete the collection. Also on exhibit is another object of great rarity at present on loan in the Museum. It is the figure of a Jaguar carved in green turquoise in the Chavin style of about...
...When you are asked to answer a series of questions, always put down some answer, for you will probably be given no credit for nothing, but at least partial credit for anything at all," they continued. "When writing your answers, use an interesting style, not just subject, verb, object over and over again...
...College authorities object to the "conscription degrees" on the 'ground that they will have a debilitating effect upon the educational standards of Harvard. They must be awakened from their inertia. Surely, with the intensity of the present crisis, they can not believe that the Harvard educational standards are going to remain at their present high level. It is in preparation for this contingency that they must plan now to grant special degrees. Although he may be facing an unpleasant future, the undergraduate will at last be facing a more certain...
Unlike the Draft Act of 1917, the present Selective Training and Service Act provides for those who conscientiously object without regard to any religious sect or organization. According to a memorandum by President Roosevelt sent to Dr. Clarence A. Dykstra, national director of selective service, the basis of deferment from combatant military and service is to be not only "religious training" but also "belief...
...balmy morning last week, on the second day of their Easter vacation, a mob of pupils gathered before Manhattan's Townsend Harris High School. When they marched in to classes, 850 of the school's 1,200 enrollment were present. Object: to protest against Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's plan to economize by closing their 93-year-old school, alma mater of such celebrities as Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter, Senator Robert F. Wagner, Cinema Tough Guy Edward G. Robinson. Language classes wrote letters in French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, protesting to the Mayor (who understands Italian, French, German, Yiddish...