Word: porcelain
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...Finland. I became acquainted with the work of Vaino Altonen, a sculptor who is practically unknown outside Finland but who should rank as one of the finest alive. I found what is perhaps the world's finest work in art ceramics being done in Helsinki's Arabia porcelain works, Finland's largest manufacturer of tiles, bathtubs...
Lady Cripps. head of the British United Aid to China Fund, reached Nanking with her young daughter last week, bringing British good will, good works and goods, including a 24-piece dessert service for Madame Chiang Kaishek, and a 40-piece porcelain tea service for Madame Sun Yatsen. The Chinese responded with an enthusiastic welcome, including a poem in her honor by Ambassador to Britain Cheng Tien...
...temper, in spite of maddening and innumerable provocations. When they became unendurable, he would merely sigh, run his fingers through his rumpled tussock of greying hair and grit his stainless steel teeth. (That's the usual material for bridgework in the U.S.S.R. because of the shortage of dental porcelain...
...inner workings of the Harvard Law School than can be found anywhere else in the world. Here too are tangible reminders of the many honors he has received--degrees and awards from England, Italy, France, China, and other countries. On a table beind his desk stands a porcelain statue made for him in Brittany, of St. Ives, the patron saint of lawyers...
...Syrian importer made egg beaters, clothes hangers, and lids for syrup and cream pitchers. His father and brother were experimenting with toiletries for men, and it was Bill who got the golden idea that packaging was all-important. He dressed the Nassaur elixirs in regal flagons of porcelain and richly colored glass, introduced them in 1937 through tony shops and department stores...