Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard 5 Japanese 2a Harvard 5 Mathematics 18a Mallinckrodt MB 9 Music 35a New Lect. Hall Philosophy C Emerson D Physics Ba Memorial Hall Physics 24a (Eng'g. 224a) Pierce 302 Psychology 35 Emerson D Semitic 1 Emerson A Slavic 1 Harvard 6 Spanish 4 Harvard 6 2.15 P.M. (XIV) Anthropology 31 Emerson D Chinese 3 Emerson A Economics 105a Emerson A Economics 151 Emerson D Engineering Sci. 11a Pierce 307 English 90a Memorial Hall English 110a Emerson D Government 14 Memorial Hall Government 17a Emerson A Government 43 Emerson 211 History 20a Emerson 211 Hist. of Religions 8a Emerson...
...designer was a plain-monickered Manhattan interior decorator named Dan Cooper. Affable, barrel-chested Designer Cooper spent years buying and selling Tudor chairs and Louis XIV sofas. Then he decided that what the restless U.S. needed, to beat the high cost of moving vans, was capsule furniture. His credo: "What the heck do we need in the way of furniture? We need a place to sit, to sleep, to put our personal possessions into or on top of, to eat, to write and play games." Trade-named Pakto, the Cooper capsules are manufactured by North Carolina's Drexel Furniture...
Contemporary U.S. art slumped far below normal. Old masters sold best. Close behind them came a bargain-counter rush in medieval halberds and maces, paneled Tudor interiors, stained-glass windows, Louis XIV chairs, a heterogeneous collection of like knickknacks. The flush market was fed by the breaking up of such huge, tax-harried U.S. estates and collections as those of William Randolph Hearst, Harry Payne Whitney, Mrs. Christian R. Holmes...
...distinction on special occasions. . . . The birth of Peter the Great, for example, moved the city fathers of Moscow to dispatch several such huge gingerbreads of "honor," one in the form of the coat of arms of the City of Moscow, another in the form of the double eagle. Louis XIV, a gourmet of parts, restored the French counterpart of gingerbread, pain d'epice, to the place of eminence it had enjoyed for centuries in France...
...Tues., May 26 9:15 A.M. XII 2:15 P.M. I Wed., May 27 9:15 A.M. II 2:15 P.M. XV Thurs., May 28 9:15 A.M. VII 2:15 P.M. XVII Fri., May 29 9:15 A.M. XIII Mon., June 1 9:15 A.M. XIV 2:15 P.M. IX Tues., June 2 9:15 A.M. VIII 2:15 P.M. XVIII Wed., June 3 9:15 A.M. III Thurs., June 3 9:15 A.M. V 2:15 P.M. XVI Fri., June...