Word: terrae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead, St. Peter's 1,900-year-old bones were said to have been found in a plain terra cotta urn less than 20 feet below the floor of the cathedral, surrounded by scattered gold coins of the period when Peter died. Since their discovery, Reporter Cianfarra was told, the bones have been guarded by the Pope himself, in the private chapel next to his study. As the Italian press took off with a whir of speculation, the Vatican was significantly careful neither to confirm nor deny the New York Times story. Summarizing an article titled "Premature News...
Since 1521, when the first Portuguese colonists settled on her shores, she has provided much of the world's sugar. The gold and diamonds of Minas Gerais made Portuguese monarchs the envy of Europe. The automotive age rode in on Amazonian rubber, and Brazil's terra roxa (red earth) has produced most of the world's coffee...
Preliminary Spring Terra Study Cards are due before 5 o'clock today. From 9 to 8:30 o'clock Study Cards should be illed at Memorial Hall and, from 8:30 to 5 o'clock, at 9 University Hall...
Steppat's friend, Anthropologist Hell-mut De Terra, dug up Tepexpan Man last February near Mexico City. When Steppat saw the skull he decided to combine sculpture and science to give it an authentic face. He first considered dissecting corpses and measuring the average thickness of tissue on modern human faces. But he found that the University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Wilton M. Krogman had done the job already, establishing the average thickness of face flesh at 15 points...
...17th Century castle had become, last week, a 20th Century shrine. Castle Grimaldi, in the Riviera town of Antibes, had long been used as a museum, but hardly anyone bothered now to look at its ancient coins, copies of Michelangelo and terra-cotta statuettes. For Pablo Picasso had hung his latest paintings in its tiled galleries. The regular habitues were bustled aside by a throng of up-to-the-minute pilgrims, who had come to see for themselves the newest chapter in the protean history of Picasso...