Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture of "Mister Speaker" frontispiecing Vol. XIV, No. 25 (Dec. 16, 1929) is not TIMEWORTHY...
From Paris to Manhattan last week sped Art Collector Edouard Jonas with $1,250,000 worth of paintings and antiques to swell Manhattan's winter exhibitions. Included were Franz Hals' Portrait of a Woman; furniture used by Louis XIV; canvases painted by Ivan F. Choultse, court painter to the late Tsar Nicholas II. Court Painter Choultse will attend the showing of his work next month...
...finest collections of signatures in the country. In addition to these the seeker for historical backgrounds may find a book belonging at one time to Madame de Pompadour containing statistics concerning the French army, as well as books characteristically bound and bearing the arms of Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte, taken from the collection of Charles Sumner...
Solomon's Temple. Many a commentator on the Jew-Arab crisis of last week loosely assumed that the "Wailing Wall," where all the trouble started, is part of the famed Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, built by the Louis XIV of Jewry circa 1000 B.C. and today utterly in ruins though the outlines of the Temple remain. Actually Jews wail for the lost glories of their race at a superimposed and much later wall built by detested King Herod. The lower courses of masonry alone are supposed to contain stones originally part of the Temple...
...THURSDAY, JUNE 6. (I) Anthropology 8 Emerson D Chinese 2 Emerson D Geology 18 Emerson D History 57b Andover D Spanish 1 Emerson D 2 o'clock (VI) Botany 16 Emerson J English 32 New Lect. Hall French 3 Emerson J French 28 hf. Emerson J FRIDAY, JUNE 7. (XIV) Chemistry 7 Emerson D Comp. Literature 11 Emerson D Comp. Literature 13 Emerson D Economics 9b New Lect. Hall Economics 13b Emerson J English 78 New Lect. Hall English 87 Emerson J French 10 New Lect. Hall Government 17b Harvard 2 Government 18a Harvard 5 Government 21 Harvard 5 History...