Word: priore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eyck, and finished after his death by his disciple Petrus Christus, it has the grace and precision, the atmosphere of Tightness and relaxation, common to Early Flemish masterpieces. The picture shows the Virgin and Child flanked by Saints Barbara and Elizabeth of Hungary. Kneeling in adoration is the Carthusian prior who commissioned the painting for his church in 1441. Acquired a century ago by Paris' Baron de Rothschild, the picture has now passed to the Frick-for a rumored...
...anti-Evatt motion was placed before a caucus of Labor M.P.s, and at week's end a preliminary roll call showed that more than half of them thought Evatt would have to go. But as chairman of the meeting, Evatt ruled the motion out of order, since no prior notice of the maneuver had been given. At this, a veteran M.P. from the gold fields called from the floor: "Doc, why don't you give the party a chance and resign?" Snapped Evatt: "I'll be damned...
...reply to the report, Temple tersely threatened to "release more information on Professor Dunham"--which they had discovered in private closed hearing with him, following his suspension and prior to his final dismissal if the ACLU were to make public this report...
...first, Novikoff appeared to be ready to adopt a course of general cooperation with the committee, which claimed to have evidence of his participation in Communist activities while a member of the faculty of Brooklyn College, prior to coming to Vermont...
During the further course of the hearing, Novikoff denied membership in the Communist Party at any time since coming to Vermont in 1948, but invoked the Fifth Amendment in answer to questions concerning membership prior to 1948. He also refused to testify concerning the alleged Communist activities of former associates at Brooklyn College, saying: "I cannot be an informer and this is what I was asked...