Word: exhibitioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Detroit has an art museum of which any of the three larger cities of the U. S. could well be proud. Trying, on a woefully curtailed budget, to do some of the things that are expected of a really first rate metropolitan museum, the Detroit Art Institute last week was...
Interesting was the fact that Detroit's exhibition was not assembled by the best known U. S. Persian scholar, Dr. Arthur Upham Pope, but by a member of the Detroit Institute's own staff, swarthy, hook-nosed Dr. Mehmet Aga-Oglu, a Persian scholar of almost equal authority...
At school in the Caucasus he learned that no Mohammedan could enter the Russia's Imperial Naval Academy. His passionate desire to understand the difference between the Moslem and Christian worlds won him two doctorates, taught him to speak, in addition to his native Turkish, Russian, Persian, German, French...
¶ One reason why chubby, energetic Charles Meigs Biddle Cadwalader. director without pay of Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences, was given the 1934 Bok award for civic service is that he manages to persuade moneyed sportsmen to go specimen-hunting for the Academy at their own expense. One...
¶ The last survivor of the race of heath hens died in 1932 on Martha's Vineyard (TIME, April 11, 1932). Cause: overshooting, grass fires. The Eskimo curlew was extinct by 1925. Cause: overshooting during migration. The passenger pigeon disappeared just after the turn of the Century. Cause: market...