Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...large number of House activities this fall is an encouraging sign that the Houses may soon approach their pre-war peak and once again be more than just giant dormitories. But better scheduling of activities is needed...
Demotri Kessel, one of Life's top photographers, made a special trip with his staff last fall to Istanbul, Turkey in order to photograph the mosaics. They decorate the interior of the Haghia Sophia mosque, which will celebrate its 1,413 birthday this Christmas. Selected pictures from over 1000 shots should appear in a full-color spread much like Life's article last Christmas on the Sistine Chapel in Rome...
After 20 years, the uncovering process is almost finished. Part of Whittemore's agreement with Attaturk was that the mosaics would all be uncovered by 1953 for the 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantoniple to the Turks. He also had to promise to take no more than one full-sized reproduction of each mosaic work out of the church during or after their uncovering...
Until the Institute began this project, very little research had been done by scholars on art in the Byzantine Empire, which is also called the Christian Roman Empire of the East. This era comprises the time from the founding of Constantoniple by Constantine in 830 A.D. to the fall of the city to the Turks in 1453 A.D. Scholars in fine arts have paid most of their attention to the Catholic and Protestant works of the Western countries...
...Boswell had been .in London less than two weeks when he got news from Scotland that he was the father of a son, the result of a brief affair in Edinburgh. The child died before Boswell saw him, but not before Boswell had righteously admonished the mother "not to fall into such a scrape again...