Word: orientales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outside the city, beyond its courts, its marble walls hushed above the water, brown men, appearing suddenly, hurried down crooked roads; racehorses with tiny loins and immense pointed legs whinnied and thumped in their stalls at the Oriental Park track; they smelled wind. Veterans at Camp Columbia, the Cuban Army...
It was not until 1764 that a third endowed professorship was established at Harvard. In that year Thomas Hancock, uncle of the hero of the Revolution, founded by the terms of his will, a professorship of Hebrew and other oriental languages. For this purpose he bequeathed 1,000 pounds sterling...
With the addition of the "Head of an Oriental" and two scarce apostle series by Israhel van Meckenern, the Museum now owns a well-rounded collection of that famous craftsman's work, unrivalled except by the famous museum abroad.
His fashion of life did not dawdle behind his ambition. One could not receive congressmen or even mayors, bought and paid for, in a flat. D. C. Stephenson built a formidable house at Irvington. Decorators from Indianapolis did what they could for him; he sent to New York for clothes...
From 1879 to 1881, Dr. Bigelow was an instructor in surgery at the Harvard-Medical School. He became distinguished as an authority not only on surgical matters but also on Buddhism and Oriental religions.