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...mineral is gypsum. It has been used as a building material throughout history. In raw form its principal use is as a retarder in cement, preventing it from setting too rapidly. It is also in wide industrial demand as a flux in smelting, as ''mineral white" or "terra alba'' in the paper, textile and paint trades. Blackboard chalk is raw, powdered gypsum molded with a binding substance. Pure gypsum is alabaster...
...addition to new features found on all cars in the low-price field, the Terra-plane, like the Hudson, has a modified self-shifter called the "Electric Hand" and increased horsepower. Somehow, the streamlining seems to have been more tastefully done than on the Fords...
...Land, were frozen in for nearly two years off Ross Island, learned what scurvy meant. In the following years Captain Scott commanded three of His Majesty's war boats and dreamed of the South Pole. Finally, in 1910, backed by Government funds, he steamed away in the Terra Nova...
...svelte Bronze Youth by the Belgian sculptor Georges Minne contrasts with the emotionally powerful terra cotta Head of a Woman by Wilhelm Lehmbruck and makes the essentially German qualities of the latter all the more apparent. Dainty modern Nymphenburg porcelains made from the eighteenth century molds by Franz Bustelli are placed near the delicate bronze antelope by the contemporary sculptress, Renee Sintenis and show her to be part of an old German tradition of technical excellence. Violently abstract paintings and prints along with sharply realistic ones suggest something of the chaos of postwar Germany...
...leaves from the Gutenberg Bible- $5,100; a first edition of Gray's Elegy- $3,500; a second edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Poems-$3,400; a complete set of Declaration of Independence signers- $18,989; an Ispahan palace carpet-$13,000 a glazed terra cotta altarpiece from the workshop of Delia Robbia-$7,600; a two-handled Queen Anne silver cup and cover - $1,550; a 16th Century Tournai tapestry...