Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Examinations like this one under the direction of Alan Burroughs, research worker, are given masterpieces before they are placed on exhibit. Put under the X-ray, brush strokes stand out clearly revealing the characteristics of the painter. For instance, the brush strokes on "St. Luke and the Virgin" have led Mr. Burroughs to believe that Dirk Bouts, and not Roger van der Weyden, was its painter...
During the opening years of the twentieth century, British and German commercial interests secured a dominating position in the markets of South America. Supported by a cunning diplomatic policy, and seeing the vast possibilities of the virgin forests and rugged Andes, foreign capital began to develop these resources and to divert the ever increasing flow of trade to their own countries. Not until the third decade of this century did American interests begin to concentrate attention on the possibilities of the Latin market and to demand diplomatic assistance in the form of favorable tariff agreements. Yet the majority of these...
...Jehovah unsuccessfully offers to an aristocratic Manhattan spinster the honor of giving virgin birth to another Messiah...
...fabricators but has its own fabricating subsidiaries to compete with them. Thus although most of the pistons in Ford cars are of Mr. Bohn's Bohnalite some are of Aluminum Co.'s Lynite. Mr. Bohn is not vitally disturbed by Aluminum Co.'s control of the virgin metal because most of his castings can be made from scrap aluminum, which has a free market. But it is a favorite charge of such independents as Bohn that Aluminum Co.'s domination has caused some big consumers (notably General Motors) to keep their aluminum consumption at an irreducible...
...reported on Mexican sex education with special reference to the State of Tabasco, whose Governor is named Canabal. In Tabasco, according to Father Kenny, children are caused to learn about sex by viewing the matings of dogs, horses, cattle. In one case a bull was labeled "God," a cow "Virgin Mary." Said he: "Primary grade pupils in Tabasco were forced to strip naked, boys and girls, as part of the sex education instruction. . . . Not only this, but both in Tabasco and Mexico City groups of primary pupils were taken to maternity wards by their teachers to watch actual parturition. Some...