Word: 1930s
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Renting art to students is only one program in a long tradition of attempts by the Museum to bring students into museum and art life. In the 1930s and 40s, the Museum offered a course in materials and techniques, in which the students used to paint directly on the walls of the Fogg in the tradition of true fresco, according to Marjorie B. Cohn, curator of prints. The brainchild of former museum director Edward Forbes, it was colloquially known as the "Eggs and Plaster" course. Today, you can poke around in closets and corners of the Fogg and still find...
...late Harvard Medical School professor--whose work is now the subject of a U.S. Department of Energy investigation into the use of human beings in tests with radiations--studied the threats posed to workers by radiation-exposure at the cyclotron physics laboratory in the 1930s...
Such a notion arises naturally when the state runs budget deficits that for the past three years total nearly $10 billion. In the summer of 1992, for the first time since the 1930s, California had to resort to IOUs to pay its bills. And Los Angeles again has taken the hardest hit. The police, who have not received a raise in three years, launched a series of job actions this fall. The city's teachers had their pay cut 10%. It now costs a resident student $3,727 (excluding room, books and board) to attend the University of California, compared...
Just six months ago, midway through his bumpy and very public schooling in how to head a nation, Bill Clinton qualified as the most unpopular first-year President since polling began in the 1930s. But by last week, as he marked his first anniversary in office and got down to work on his State of the Union ; address, his approval ratings had bounced back to the healthy levels of his giddy Inaugural season. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, 54% of those surveyed said they approve of Clinton's presidential performance, while only 34% disapproved...
...years ago, the notion that much of the Northern Hemisphere had once been covered by thick sheets of ice was both new and highly controversial. Within a few decades, though, most scientists were convinced and began looking for explanations. Several suggested that astronomical cycles were involved, and by the 1930s the Yugoslav astronomer Milutin Milankovitch had constructed a coherent theory. The ice ages, he argued, were triggered by changes in the shape of the earth's slightly oval orbit around the sun and in the planet's axis of rotation. Studies of the chemical composition of ocean-floor sediments, which...