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...subject for this great plaster painting, Artist Orozco chose the legend of Quetzalcoatl, the Toltec feathered snake-god, patron of arts. Officials of Dartmouth found this suitable. The college was founded by Missionary Eleazar Wheelock to convert the Indians...
...Vermont road builders in 1848 let a charge of explosive detonate prematurely. The explosion drove a crowbar through the left side of his head. He was then 25 lived twelve years and nine months longer, showed no physical impediments, but did develop an abnormal truculence. The museum has a plaster model of his head, and the actual crowbar...
...Vermont road builders in 1848 let a charge of explosive detonate prematurely. The explosion drove a crowbar through the left side of his head. He was then 25, lived twelve years and nine months longer, showed no physical impediments, but did develop an abnormal truculence. The Museum has a plaster model of his head, and the actual crowbar...
...berry patches. Among many "quick-freezing" problems are how to preserve taste, appearance and nutrition values upon defrosting. Donald Kiteley Tressler and William T. Murray of Gloucester have been trying to determine just how long to age beef in order to make a tender quick-frozen meat. Sugared Plaster- The desperate sugar industry with 2,105,000 long tons overproduction asked Mellon Institute to find new uses for sugar. Result: Gerald Judy Cox and John Metschl resurrected and perfected an ancient masonic formula for strengthening mortar with syrup. To every 100 Ib. of quicklime in a lime-sand mortar...
...Swiss Minister Marc Peter presented to President Hoover Sculptor Ernest Durig. Sculptor Durig presented to President Hoover a plaster bust of George Washington so large (seven feet high) it had to be left outside on the White House lawn. Asked the puzzled President: "What shall we do with it?" Representative Sol Bloom, director of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission, was summoned to find an answer...