Word: wood
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...portico (see color), which was designed later by the master Mateo, is part of the current exhibition, but other works in the show range from paintings to illuminated manuscripts, from ivories and capitals to frescoes from Catalonia, mosaics from Italy, enamels from Belgium, wood carvings from Norway. "The difficulty." wrote one Spanish critic, "is to know where to stop and look." In one display was a polished bronze reliquary containing a portrait of the Emperor Barbarossa. In another was a praying Madonna done in mosaics by an artist who might have received his training in Byzantium. There was a robe...
...unparalleled professional school" for Government policymakers. Founded in 1930, the Wood-row Wilson School follows its namesake's dictum that "the school must be of the nation." Offering the first U.S. interdepartmental program (economics, history, politics, sociology), the school has boasted a unique flair for practicality. Students range from sharp new college graduates to seasoned foreign businessmen and rising Army colonels. To earn Wilson's degree of Master of Public Affairs, they spend hours in seminars, work summers in Government agencies. The goal is a graduate trained to use academic tools on ticklish public problems-from birth-control...
...near the cucumber-and tomato-growing village of Vraona on the east coast of Attica, Dr. John Papadimitriou, director of antiquities in Greece's Ministry of Education, uncovered 15 wooden vases carved in geometrical designs-the first such find in history. Knowing that fresh air would decompose the wood, which had been preserved in fertile mud since the 8th or 6th century B.C., the archeologist rushed them 23 miles to Athens for a thorough preservative bath...
...kinds of fun: a hilarious switch on the man-walks-dog routine, a kindergarten course in the divergence of species, and possibly even a sly political charade with special interest for those nations that are tied to a bear. When the pup leaps off in pursuit of a wood rat, the cub just sits there on his little bear behind and wonders vaguely what all the barking is about, so the rat gets away and the pup goes hungry. The bear on the other hand finds plenty to eat -berry bushes and beehives can't run away. And while...
...termites are on the move and gaining on man. Last year the wood-eating insects destroyed $250 million worth of U.S. property, more than the national loss from arson, tornadoes and lightning-and more than twice the damage the bugs did only a decade ago. Furthermore, encouraged by milder winters, termites are pushing steadily north, reports Dr. Thomas Elliott Snyder, 76, research associate of the Smithsonian Institution...