Word: arce
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and a sculptor fully equal in ability to Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. A pupil of Gutzon Borglum, she designed a huge equestrian statue of the Cid in action for her husband's Hispanic Museum, but specializes in lions and Joans of Arc. Her best known Joan, that on Manhattan's Riverside Drive, shows the Maid standing in her stirrups with sword raised. Other Anna Huntington Joans have been erected at Gloucester, Mass., Blois, France, and in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
...Hadley's device for measuring angular distances was really an octant, employing a graduated arc of one-eighth of a circle. Capt. Campbell enlarged it to one-sixth in 1757 to use it for navigation purposes...
From Far Western points one group of marchers passed through Chicago. With them was a Mrs. Vera Perata, wife & mother, in the character of "Depression Joan of Arc...
...ruin they arc like to make...
...lustful pastor in the late Jeanne Eagels' most successful play Rain was also a "Reverend Davidson." Literally "conduct unbecoming a sheep herder," overseer or bishop. For Ye were as sheep going astray; but arc now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.-Peter...