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...mystical Welshman, Arthur Davies was so stirred by every form of artistic technique that his widow found works in 20 different media: paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, wood & ivory carvings, tapestry, rugs, stained glass, terra cotta and colored enamels. The only technical idiosyncrasy of George Bellows was a fondness for the cheap board on which the U. S. Government prints penny postcards. For his lithographs and drawings he used to buy reams of it, uncut, from Washington...
...received the blessings of his namesake (but no kinsman), Joseph Cardinal Schulte, Archbishop of Cologne. Soon after, in 1927, Father Schulte raised some money, founded the Missionalium Vehiculorum Associatio or Missions-Verkchrs-Arbeitsgemeinschajt ("Missionary Communications Association"). Calling it MIVA for short, Father Schulte chose as its motto: Obmam Christo terra marique et in aera ("Toward Christ on land and sea and in the air"). In 1929 he made his first journey to the U. S. to raise more money. Finally the Pope himself gave unqualified approval...
...bestow honorary degrees at the Tercentenary of the university next September. Only a few of the names will be recognized even by educated persons, busy as they are with the ordinary activities of life. Many of the fields of study in which these scholars have specialized will be a terra incognita for the average man. What it "the ultra-centrifuge"? And "neo-positivism"? What is meant by "the chemistry of sesquiterpenes...
...miles away. Latest Observatory figures show it has increased in brightness from ninth to eighth magnitude since the initial recording Friday, and by the end of July, before beginning to recede, will be brighter than the sixth magnitude and within 20,000,000 miles of terra firma...
Cabled Soviet Minister Alexander Minkin: URUGUAYAN FOREIGN MINISTER TELLS ME PRESIDENT OF REPUBLIC WOULD CONSIDER HIMSELF COMPENSATED FOR OUR REFUSAL TO ADMIT RADOVITSKY IF WE WOULD BUY 200 TONS OR SO OF URUGUAYAN CHEESE. I WOULD RECOMMEND FOR IMPROVEMENT OF RELATIONS WITH PRESIDENT TERRA THE PURCHASE OF A SMALL CONSIGNMENT OF CHEESE...