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Before the Revolution, icons were still gathering soot in dim church recesses. Many were repainted six or seven times, defaced with plaster, chalk and glue relief. Their artistic worth escaped even most Russians. The few attempts made at restoration were restricted to dubbing in missing hands and faces. One of the Soviet Government's first acts was to set up the National Central Restoration Workshops, which are still busy cleaning off the accumulation of centuries. Occasionally a bearded prophet, scraped off, becomes a sweet-faced Virgin...
Thomas Whittemore, for a study of the mosaics, plaster and marbles in Aya Sofya in Istanbul...
...contributed as much as any, more than most, to the advancement of commercial and military flying. As a professional soldier he was the first to take off, fly and land by instruments. He set distance records, tested wings, engines, anything. He once flew across the Andes, his legs in plaster casts, to demonstrate a U.S. plane...
...focal point of the field centers in the able hands of "Sam" Hershey, who, in Arch.Sci. 2a and 2b, has the most difficult task of cultivating a sense of design and a feeling for form and space, using paper, scissors, pencil, paint, clay, plaster, wire, and innumerable other materials to achieve the goal. Dean Hudnut presents the history of architecture from Egyptian times to the present in a singularly unpedantic way in courses...
When the Office of Price Administration puts up the ceiling laths and covers them with plaster, something will follow that has never before happened in U.S. history. All upward price movements, retail and wholesale, will halt. Price tags on the nation's shelves, of pillow slips and Paris green, of cosmetics and traveling cranes, will read no higher fort the duration...