Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for Dick Emmet at the five oar, Coach Tom Bolles' number one boat is much the same as it was when he made his initial selections immediately after spring vacation. Frank Cunningham is at stroke position, with Paul Knaplund at seven, Frank Strong at six, Bob Stone at four, Jud Gale at three, Stew Clark at two, and Mike Scully...
Married. Rear Admiral Ellery Wheeler Stone, 53, former Allied Control Commissioner in Italy, onetime president of Postal Telegraph, Inc.; and Countess Renata Arborio-Mella di Sant'Elia, 25, niece of the Pope's social secretary; he for the third time, she for the first; in Vatican City. Stone, who became a Roman Catholic a month before the wedding, was allowed to remarry in the church because 1) his first wife, a Catholic, died after their divorce, and 2) his second marriage (ending in divorce) to a Protestant was not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church...
...zoology. Like other scholars before him, he was struck by resemblances between the cultures of Polynesia and South America. Both regions have "stepped" pyramids, "megalithic" structures, elaborate feather-work. Both cultivate sweet potatoes and call them by names which closely resemble their ancient Peruvian name: kumara. The strange stone heads on Easter Island look a great deal like some sculpture in Peru...
Luke: . . . and they found the stone rolled away from the sepulcher...
...different. Among them: a 5½-ton Pietà, a contorted and agonized Job, a doubled-up heaven-staring figure of Despair. There is also a series of scriptural stories told in wood relief, which Městrović prefers for biblical subjects because it is "more living than stone." Says he: "No work of art can live without some remote religious conception...