Word: paneling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main panels showed the automobile industry from the mine to the assembly line at Ford Motor Co.'s River Rouge plant, populated by Rivera's chunky, concentrated figures. Others showed a pharmaceutical factory (Parke, Davis & Co.), airplane welders, poison gas workers, topped in huge scale by females representing the raw materials of Detroit's industries: a white woman for limestone, black for coal, yellow for sand, red for iron ore. Critics rated the frescoes first-class, noted an increasing hardness and sharpness in Rivera's detail. Nearly overlooked was a little panel high on one wall...
Herbert Eustis Winlock, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, had news for the Press last week: the Museum had bought a picture-one inch wider than a sheet of typewriter paper. The little picture, Agony in the Garden, was painted by Raphael. It is a panel from an altarpiece presented to the Museum 16 years ago by John P. Morgan, which can now be reassembled for the first time in 270 years. It was purchased from Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Postal Telegraph chairman, father-in-law of wealthy Composer Irving Berlin...
...Raphael panel was not the only purchase from Mr. Mackay. At the same time the Museum acquired from him an Adoration of the Shepherds by Mantegna; three historic suits of armor; two belonging to Queen Elizabeth's friends, the Earls of Pembroke and Cumberland, the third to Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France; the finest sword the Museum has ever owned, that of Ambrosio di Spinola, the General of Velazquez's famed Surrender of Breda (The Lances); and the only known 14th Century tapestry depicting King Arthur...
...period when every inn boasted "Drunk for a penny, dead drunk for twopence." Even the Greek golden mean could not sober up the great tutor Person. These may be harsh truths, but Harvard can not with impunity appropriate the more outer trappings of Georgian buildings. Every discreet and rebellious panel years to look once more upon the honest revelry of ale. And the shades of the old Moors can not but rise in anger at the aridity of the common rooms which their antique arches crown. The Canutes of the south have retired in ignoble confusion. Cambridge also must struggle...
...amusement and instruction the superintendents were to listen to some 100 speeches in five days, not including invocations, welcomes, "jury panel discussions and ordinary discussions. They talked of differential predictions, probable errors, I. Q.'s, unit plans, retention measures. They heard of the Carroll Prose Appreciation Tests and the Minnesota Employment Stabilization Research Institute. They scanned a display of "effective publicity materials for the defense of the schools...