Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white granite mint, built like the legendary San Francisco hillside cow (five stories in front, three behind) was dedicated in that city by Mrs. Ross. Covering a city block bounded by Buchanan, Hermann, Webster and Duboce Streets, the box-shaped mint squats on the scalped dome of live rock which made that block a real-estate liability until the Government took it. From the sidewalk visitors must climb 175 steps to the huge sliding bronze front door where bas relief dollars two feet wide greet them. A storage and assay depot as well as a mint, the new building began...
Four previous hikes have taken the Mountaineerers to the Quincy Quarries, Pulpit Rock in Nahant, Pawtuckaway, and Joe English Hill. Of the 35 undergraduate and 70 graduates in the Club, about 15 have negotiated each trip. Ten of these are consistent performers, including officers Colin Maclaurin '38, and David Stacey...
...would consider it more than unfortunate for me should I find myself doomed after death to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind on this planet-to discover that the stone walls and towers and fireplaces of my home, founded at every point on the solid rock of Connecticut; that my railway line with its bridges, trestles, tunnels through solid rock . . . that my locomotives and cars, constructed on the safest and most efficient mechanical principles . . . should reveal themselves to me as in the possession of some blithering saphead...
...Museum of Modern Art crowned its notable 1936-3 7 season with a comprehensive exhibit of the very latest artistic wrinkle, Surrealism. With a vertiginous backward leap 200 centuries into the Fourth Ice Age, the Museum last week wound up its season by presenting an extraordinary collection of Prehistoric Rock Pictures. Director Alfred Barr Jr. saw no paradox. He recalled that many cave decorations were magic symbols to help the painter with his hunting, and thus "today walls are painted so that the artist may eat," whereas "in prehistoric times walls were painted so that the community might eat." Nevertheless...
...largest (24 ft. by 9 ft.) exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art show last week was a watercolor copy of a rock painting from Mtoko Cave in Southern Rhodesia. Covering a complete wall the Mtoko cave mural is a comprehensive prehistoric art collection in itself. Almost invisible, all the way across the top reach two hazy white elephants. Drawn in profile with only two feet, they are among man's earliest attempts at graphic representation, doubtless done early in the Aurignacian period. But the Mtoko mural is richest in its examples of later (Solutrean, Magdalenian, Mesolithic, Neolithic...