Word: stay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Kuno Francke, professor emeritus at Harvard, has just returned from a four months' stay in Germany, during which he acquired a number of notable additions to the collection of casts in the Germanic Museum at Harvard University. Among them are six statues of apostles and prophets from Strassburg Cathedral; a relief of the Last Judgement and the figures of the Church Triumphant and Synagogue Defeated from Bamberg Cathedral; six busts of Patriarchs and Saints from the Monastery of Blaubeuren; two 13th century statues of Abraham and Melchisedek from the church at Wechselburg; a 16th century Crucifixion from St. James...
...Martin-Harvey, a famous producer and scene designer of England, is presenting during his stay in Boston Greek plays, such as Sophocies "Oedipua Rex". Shakaperian dramas in cluding "Hamlet" and "The Taming of the Shrew", and modern drama such as Maeterlink's "Burgomaster of Stillemonde...
...gentleman, an Oxford scholar, a literature, he was one of the men who could not stay at home, and who preferred the path of a rolling stone to the respectability of an English common-room. However what he sought was not glamour but peace of spirit, and in truth he appears to have found little enough of either. The scenery of the islands seems to have left him cold. Instead, with a vivid and stern realism he paints a picture of sweltering heat, disease, fever, and death in the midst of a polyglot community of picturesque but unattractive traders...
...manila and its environs. Many Americans have the idea that the Japanese are overflowing in to the Philippine Islands but this is not the cases. In 1921, they numbered about 7,000. The change in climate, however, was not suitable to their temperament, and after a six years stay, they commenced to migrate back to the Japanese islands. At present, they number about...
...reporting the Bowdoin frozen solid in the ice floes of Smith Sound, at about 79° latitude, some 706 miles from the Pole. This is the strait separating northwest Greenland from the large group of islands called Ellesmere Land. Captain MacMillan is not seeking to reach the Pole but will stay in the Arctic zone two years for scientific observations. Winter is now upon the expedition, with its several months of continuous darkness...