Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gordon Loud, a veteran digger of 37 who now commands the Oriental Institute's Megiddo Expedition, was back in Chicago with news that he had penetrated the site down to bedrock, through 20 culture levels dating back to 3,500 B. C. Beneath the oldest level was a stone age cave containing flint instruments and bones. At the 19th level the excavators found a flagged paving in which drawings of horned animals and men had been cut. At the 18th level was a stone fortification wall 15 feet high and 24 feet wide, which indicated that there might have...
...Breinin, Lester Schwartz, William Schwartz, Hester Miller Murray, Joseph Vavak and Mitchell Siporin showed growing talent, intelligence, style. In sculpture the variety was especially striking, from Mary Anderson's crisp Alice in Wonderland (see cut), in which the technique of Magazine Artist Joseph Christian Leyendecker seemed adapted to stone, to Edouard Chassaing's knotty, Gothic Aesculapius (see cut). Most curious planes were observed in a plaster "diorama" entitled Reclamation of Eroded Farm Land (see cut), by Chicago's rugged old-timer Rudolph Weisenborn...
...friends the prototypes of their own. Such cinema families as the Hardys and Twentieth Century-Fox's Joneses are well on their way to developing for modern cinemaddicts the kind of cumulative box office appeal once exercised by old time serials. Good shot: Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) settling a quarrel between his daughter and the cook, who joins the menage halfway through the picture in a manner calculated not to offend cinemaddicts who cannot afford such luxuries...
Three weary years of mediation by representatives of the U. S. and five South American nations last week ended. At Buenos Aires a peace agreement was reached, officially closing the 1932-35 war between Paraguav and Bolivia over the steamy, sumpy Gran Chaco region. Within the red stone walls of the Argentine Government's Casa Rosada, the Foreign Ministers of Paraguay and Bolivia advanced to a huge oval table, formally scratched their signatures to a peace treaty. "Peace between the Republics of Paraguay and Bolivia is re-established," read Article...
...Fined 17 of the 46 defendants found guilty of conspiracy to fix gasoline prices in the Madison oil trials last January. Federal Judge Patrick Stone fined twelve companies and five individuals an aggregate of $65,000, let ten individuals and one company go scot-free, offered a new trial for 15 individuals and three companies. Those fined immediately appealed...