Word: queened
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chicagoan of the vintage of 1888 by birth, Professor Mather did not come to Harvard till 1924. After his graduation from Denison University (Granville, Ohio), he taught geology at Arkansas, Chicago, Queen's (Kingston, Ontario), and Denison, acquiring during this time a wife and three daughters. Since becoming professor of Geology here in 1927 he has made himself one of the most popular lecturers as well as partaken in Boston civic activities...
When John Evelyn in 1641 thus recorded the flourishing artistic life of Holland, Jan Vermeer of Delft, who was to become the most finished realist of the Dutch School, was just nine years old. Last fortnight, visitors at a far greater fair-Queen Wilhelmina's Jubilee (TIME, Sept. 12)-found Rotterdam again furnished with pictures, and the greatest attraction of all was a painting by Jan Vermeer. Displayed among 450 Netherlands-owned masterpieces at the Boymans Museum, Christ at Emmaus (see cut) is no drollery but one of the three religious paintings ascribed to the artist. To Netherlanders...
Died. Arthur Frederick Patrick Albert, Prince of Connaught, 55, grandson of Queen Victoria, elder child & only son of the 88-year-old Duke of Connaught, close friend & first cousin once removed of the Duke of Windsor; of cancer of the throat; in London...
...centuries ago Catherine the Great of Russia had a 952-piece set of Wedgwood pottery. Today Queen Elizabeth II of England still sips her morning tea from Wedgwood. Added evidence that Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd. keeps pace with the times was last week's laying of a cornerstone for a new hyperefficient, modern electric kiln outside Hanley, England...
...England's famed potteries has quite so hoary or famed a past as Wedgwood. The first Josiah set up for himself in 1759, nine years later built a factory on 1,000 acres of land at Hanley. He became famous for his cream-colored earthenware (called ''Queen's Ware" for George Ill's Charlotte), was respected for improving turnpike roads, founding schools and chapels, was hated for espousing the cause of the upstart American colonies. Bit by bit the Wedgwoods disposed of their land, until a bare five-acre plot on which the plant still...