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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine months plus 149 days (the period a soul spends in purgatory) after the death of a Grand Lama, priests throughout the fastnesses of Central Asia watch for eclipses, earthquakes, avalanches, cloudbursts. Where such phenomena occur, the Lama's soul may, on the appointed day, enter the body of an infant about to be born. The mother may identify her holy offspring by other portents & miracles and by seven signs which include a full set of teeth in the babe, a birthmark resembling a tiger's stripes, an ability to utter the name of Buddha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Godless Country | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...worked in a blacksmith's shop to familiarize himself with metals, but his favorite materials are wood and stone which he frequently picks up on motor trips to Connecticut. Ferber has been working for only six years but has already been through four great influences in that period: African, Egyptian, Mexican and Lachaise. Best whittling: The Wrestlers, in mahogany, and Worker, in lignum-vitae. Best stone work: Cat, from a cobblestone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Carvers & Casters | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...Faces-Even at this unseasonable period, however, the seeds of reform were sprouting within N.A.M. And the sprouts were diligently cultivated by a group of men who, if not Reds, were progressive enough to realize that times had changed since the days of William McKinley. Among the flowing stocks, wing collars and morning coats of the N.A.M. veterans, they were distinctly new faces. Significantly, most of them had made their public names since 1929. Typical of the N.A.M. "progressives" are men like President Lewis H. Brown of Johns-Manville Corp., Henning Webb Prentis Jr. of Armstrong Cork, Tobaccoman Williams, Chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Coalition Congress | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Numerous examples of the Danish silverwork of George Jensen are on display in the Germanic Museum to remain for a period of a month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections And Critiques | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...same period 265 series, totaling 26, 732 duplicates, were sent in exchange to 90 other herbaria in 22 different countries. During the year 68 loans of approximately 6000 technically important specimens were sent out for critical study by specialists in this country and in Argentina, Britain, Germany, Holland and Sweden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Million Mark in Sight as Herbarium Collection Adds 32,000 New Plants | 12/11/1937 | See Source »

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