Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While cocky Mr. MacCracken was getting his habeas corpus writ. Col. Brittin, gaunt and bespectacled Spanish-American and World War veteran who had learned to fly at 55, began his prison sentence in the dingy red stone District jail. The warden asked him what he could do. He said he knew clerking...
...fashion. It is as if we were to bury a prosperous business man with his wife, his servants, the family jewels and silverware, and then toss in a liberal quantity of groceries for use in the after-world. But instead of coffins, these people buried their dead in great stone slabs...
...could not suggest a fifth year in the high schools to prepare the college prospect. Nor would the student look with relish on the prospect of an extra year, an added mile-stone on the road to a degree. No faculty would admit of its practicality without an increase of its members or its salaries. And when America is spending $386,000,000 less this year on secondary education than it did in 1930, when 175,000 school children lack primary training in the three R's because their communities lack cash, such a course is patently impractical. The only...
...Samuel K. Lothrop '15, who have been carrying on explorations in Panama for three years. The archeological finds were made in the burial grounds of an unknown Central American tribe and are largely in the form of personal ornaments. The chieftains of the tribe were buried in giant stone slabs, in which were piled gold trinkets, precious stone, and brilliantly painted pottery. Some of the gold ornaments were valued at 100 to 150 dollars apiece...
...family have gone on painting miniatures, with the result that last week the American Society of Miniature Painters was able to hold its 35th exhibition in Manhattan. Months ago each artist bought little slabs of ivory, preferably from tusks of a live elephant. The ivory was smoothed with pumice stone, soaked in water until pliable. When pressed stiff and flat each slab was cut for size. Omitting the gum, glycerine or honey the ancients used to make paint stick to chicken skin, mutton bone, vellum or copper, 20th Century miniaturists daubed on pure water colors. Then they had something they...