Word: terras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...kept their prices unchanged when other leading companies were raising theirs last April. Now motormakers were reported to be bitterly regretting their action, and wanting to reduce prices again without losing face. Chevrolet pointed the way by announcing a new model with a few changes and a lower price. Terra-plane followed. Last week the new Chevrolet model was on display at the 61 General Motors' shows throughout the land. General Motors also slashed other Chevrolet prices as much as $50, Pontiac prices...
...Advisers to the Expedition are: Professor Joseph Barcroft, Cambridge, England; Dr. Hellinut De Terra, Yale University; Lawrence J. Henderson, professor of Biological Chemistry; Earnest A. Hooton, Professor of Anthropology; Professor August Krogh, Copenhagen University; Professor Alfred Redfield, Harvard University; Dr. Donald D. Van Slyke, Rockefeller Institute...
...then each drank from the cup. . . . Then some one came down and killed the animals, and perhaps arranged the drugged bodies, and when that was done earth was flung from above." India. As mountains go, Asia's toplofty Himalayas are young. Yale's Dr. Hellmut de Terra thinks they are even younger than is commonly supposed, that climatic changes caused by their vigorous upthrusts may have influenced the evolution of man and anthropoid apes. Geologist de Terra organized the Yale North India Expedition, took along a biologist, a paleontologist and Mrs. de Terra as photographer. After 15 months...