Word: working
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...casting was done by workmen sent from the Trocadero Museum in Paris, under the direction of Lerecule, a man of 82 years of age who has been in the work for over half a century...
...great Abbey Church of Cluny and have been the centre of an archeological controversy with regard to their dating. It now appears from internal evidence and from texts that they were carved during the early years of the construction of the building, that is, after 1088, when the work was begun, and before 1095 when the first dedication, by Pope Urban II, occurred. Originally they had square impost blocks with a spreading moulding, the lower corners of which were laid immediately above the upper corners of the capitals. The convincing proof that these are works of the first period...
Speedier trans-Atlantic service by air and water will work wondrous, though as yet unpredictable, changes in the future. We may be sure, however, that customers, one of the other, the "Unite States of Europe" and the United State of America will always have mutual interests that are beyond the power of political partisanship to injure in any permanent...
...early work of great value is the first edition of Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene." This has the dedication: "To the most Mightie and Magnificent Empresse Elizabeth, by the grace of God QUeene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. Her most humble Servant: Ed Spenser." This copy is full of misprints and mistakes in the numbering of the pages; on page 332 blank spaces have been left for the insertion of Welsh words...
...Nyhoff '31 and H. W. Sibley '31 were outstanding in the Junior play, and Frank Watt '32 and T. E. Covel '32 did yeoman work for the Sophomores...