Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total of $2.20 covers round-trip transportation, price of admission to the theatre, and participation in a meet-the-cast party after the performance. Students wishing to take advantage of this opportunity should sign up a day in advance in Grays...
...students are invited to a "membership mixer" sponsored by the Harvard Zionist Society this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the Harvard Student Union. There will be a brief round table discussion on the current crisis in the Middle East followed by a program of folk and social dancing...
...Italian Bantamweight Mario D'Agata, a stone-deaf laundryman from Arezzo, opened a cut over the eye of Champion Robert Cohen in the third round of a match in Rome, and then kept slicing at it accurately and relentlessly. At the bell for the start of the seventh, Cohen's cut was bleeding uncontrollably, and D'Agata was new champion...
...their canvases was at least as well painted as the wall on which it hung. But by European standards, early colonial art was medieval. Being mostly commoners cut off from London court life, the Puritans had remained unaware of Renaissance art. Instead of trying to paint people in the round, they produced flat, stylized maps of their sitters. The word for this, derived from medieval illuminating of manuscripts, was "limning." It permitted likenesses of a limited sort, but lifelikeness was beyond...
...West Virginia's hellish Schoolhouse−featuring such obstacles as "bottomless" (down to 70 ft.) fissures and sheer-rock faces that long defied human spiders, 180-ft. dropoffs past receding walls in thin air−can be negotiated by the most skilled mountaineers in eight to ten hours, round trip. As the bat flies, Schoolhouse is a mere 1,600 ft. long, but the rate of travel for the best spelunkers is less than 7 ft. a minute...