Word: reconstruct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talk will be given on the second floor of the museum, and it will use the paintings in the permanent exhibition there as examples of restoration. There are two distinct methods of restoring a picture, one is by merely covering the blank spaces with flat color, without attempting to reconstruct the detail, and the other is by trying to paint the picture as it was in the original, before mutilation. Examples of both types will be shown and explained in the talk...
Household untensils of many kinds have been so numerous that here again it is possible to reconstruct with accuracy another phase of their life...
When Author Morison was a young man (he is now 45), much interested in the historical figure of Jesus, he was not satisfied with "its overgrowth of primitive beliefs and dogmatic suppositions, planned to write a book giving the true history as well as he could reconstruct it, of Jesus' trial, crucifixion, death. When he came to write the book, his investigations and deductions led him to a different interpretation from the one he had in mind. His problem finally resolved itself into the title of his book: who moved the stone from Jesus' tomb? Author Morison...
...many years Mr. Potter has been trying to identify and restore the works of the John Harvard library. In 1919, he printed in the Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts the Catalogue of that library, so far as he was able to reconstruct it. Of the 329 thought to be of the same editions as the ones originally in the John Harvard library. Eighty-five more are also contemporary editions he might have possessed...