Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attempted Theft. The Roma is the huge Bellanca sesquiplane which C. Sabelli was to fly to Rome last year. But her size and fame were no deterrents to six presumed thieves who last week audaciously attempted to take her from her hangar at Wilmington, Del. Bellanca guards forewarned by telephone frustrated the attempt and pleased George Haldeman, co-pilot of Ruth Elder's trans-Atlantic flight, now Bellanca's chief test pilot, who privately plans to fly the Roma whither publicity abounds...
Decidedly not in "agreement with Catholic doctrine" had been the Mussolini statement that "the Catholic religion was born in Palestine but became Catholic in Rome. If it had remained in Palestine it would probably have been one of the many sects which nourish in that heated atmosphere like the essence of therapeutics, and it would have nickered out without leaving a trace...
...even more satisfying to Dean Meeks is the fact that since his coming to the School of Fine Arts in 1916 it has become, in competition with nationwide art schools and ateliers, the most successful prize-winning institution in the country. Yale students have taken the annual Prix de Rome in painting, most coveted award to young daubers, for the past five years (TIME...
Last week Dean Meeks heard that Burton Kenneth Johnson, 22, son of a Chicago dentist, had won the 1929 Prix de Rome in Architecture-third to be given to a Yale student in the past five years. True, Architect Johnson first went to Yale last fall, after four years architectural study at the University of Illinois, where he won honorable mention in last year's Prix Competition. But the honor of tuning him to prize-winning pitch was Yale...
...quite possible that the conference this summer will result in a merger of the Albanian school with the new University of Albania, being established this year under the direction of Dr. E. J. Erwin of the University of Rome...