Word: exhibition
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deftly did the purloiner whisk the $11,800 worth of art treasure from its hooks that its absence was not noted for about an hour. Museum curators explained the thief had selected his loot so that he never disturbed the symmetry of the exhibit...
...plus a third yet to come of the University in 1677) but also the various models in the Peabody Museum--the Hopi Indians, the cliff dwellers, and the 23 models for the Harvard Forestry Department. These forestry models were Pitman's biggest job; in one series, he had to exhibit the changes in the vegetation of a typical New England farm from the Seventeenth century to the present. In each of the models, the trees and shrubs had to be perfectly reproduced so that forestry students could identify the different species--even down to the number of whirls...
Down on the ground floor, there are exhibits from the Museum's collection of German medieval and renaissance painting and sculpture. In the last two years, the Museum has developed a flair for the modern, supplementing its Gothic saints and saviours with shocking heresies like the recent exhibit from the Bauhans, which includes abstractionist chess sets and stained glass made of beer bottle bottoms. Visitors are a little surprised by the new trend, but on the whole they seem to like it. The only ones who are disappointed are the two or three a day who wander...
...further exhibit their prowess, Harvey Love's "novice" rowers beat the varsity in a practice race Wednesday, an extraordinary feat considering the excellence of the senior boat...
...Nationalist capital, Nanking, and encircle Shanghai. Dramatic as the advance is, there is nothing surprising about it. Everyone who understands the situation in China and the Far East has seen the move coming for more than two years. The people who cry now that the U. S. is responsible exhibit a complete failure to study the lesson which must be learned from Chiang Kai-Shek's costly fiasco...