Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headless Ceres has occupied a niche over the main entrance of the Academy's later building at Broad and Cherry Streets. To the sculptor who hewed and chiseled her broad figure in the time of Praxiteles, she represented not Roman Ceres but Greek Demeter, "earth mother," goddess of fertility, mother of Persephone whom Pluto carried off to the underworld. One of the few pieces of ancient Greek sculpture which have been left outdoors since discovery, Ceres has been getting blacker every year in Philadelphia's smoky air, has finally begun to crumble. To protect passersby, Academy President Alfred...
...Time have spoken and written about the old German gods Wodin and Thor, etc. These are essentially Danish, from away back into the dark 400 A.D. and were known as Odin and Thor, hence the weekdays, Onsdag (Wednesday) & Torsdag (Thursday) ; and Fredag (Friday) from Freja (j pronounced as y), Goddess of Beauty and Intelligence...
...City, a 25-year-old professional who was trained at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, has worked on Manhattan's Radio City decorations and is now a sculptor's assistant. Sculptor Amore's winner was Iris Creating the Rainbow. Beside a modernized figure of the goddess, John Amore set a slender striated arc of marble which he described as "the nascent rainbow springing with the speed of light into the arch of the heavens" (see cut). Other winners...
Since Harvard is a University, it must, through diligent research, contribute its share of knowledge to the world. It must train its graduate students to master the technic of productive scholarship, and to pursue relentlessly the elusive Goddess of truth, but in so doing it must not forget that its primary purpose is the development of the art of teaching...
...jittery crew the small, shabby-British freighter Hestia was unlucky because she was named after a goddess (of the hearth). She had run aground, collided with a Russian ship, caught fire. Now they were waiting off Celebes to replace a captain who had just died full of ominous mutterings. Into this Conrad-like setting Author Tomlinson introduces as main character of Pipe All Hands lean, elderly...