Word: pekin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...milk of human kindness." At the White House arrived many a beast judged unfit to live therein: from Chihuahua a Mexican bear in a motor van, from Australia a wallaby (small kangaroo), from Africa twin lion cubs named Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau, a duikir (tiny deer), a dozen Pekin ducks just hatched. These animals were sent to the Zoo. Only Tiny Tim. red chowchow, sometimes called Terrible Tim. and a white collie pup now share the Coolidge home at Northampton, Mass...
...Dean Modarelli, W. H. '32 Tackle 20 186 6.2 Union Hill Morton, W. H. '32 Back 20 168 5.11 New Rochelle Nims, C. S. '31 Guard 20 190 6.1 Greenfield High O'Connor, E. J. '31 End 22 186 5.11 Hebron Pettingill, G. '32 Guard 19 179 5.9 Pekin School Phinney, W. L. '31 Guard 20 171 5.7 Manchester High Pochler, P. F. '30 Center 21 187 6.2 Cushing Porter, O. V. '32 Back 21 182 5.7 Lake Forest Rollins, E. A. '32 Tackle 19 191 6. Scarsdale High Sullivan, C. L. '31 End 19 184 6. Boston English Sutton...
Baron Alexander von Stael-Holstein, this year Visiting Lecturer from the National University of Pekin to Harvard, has been elected Professor of Central Asian Philology at Harvard...
...will be Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, who will speak on Early Indian Architecture; Baron A. Von Stael Holstein of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, who will describe, with illustrations, the Lamaistic Pantheon of 800 Buddhists statuettes which he discovered in the Forbidden City of Pekin: Professor William Hung, also of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, who will discuss the finding of the Nestorian Tablet; Professor Louis Hodous, of the Hartford Seminary Foundation; Dr. Berthold Laufer, of the Field Museum, Chicago; and Professor K.S. Latourette, of Yale University...
...large wooden figure purchased in Pekin, and now on exhibition, represents the seventeenth-century type of religious sculpture which has been largely ignored in favor of earlier and more archaic sculpture...