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...since the 1960s. Nothing has happened since then to make feeding the kids, washing their clothes or cleaning the home easier. Think about the time you spend schlepping around; note that New Yorkers travel in the same way and at much the same speed as they did in the 1930s...
...asked to sit in it. “Design~Recline: Modern Architecture and the Mid-Century Chaise Longue,” looks at a particular brand of chair created by a particular group of people. The chair: the chaise longue. The people: modern architects in the 1920s and 1930s...
...population that feels a little uncomfortable with consumerism in general and likes the idea of recycling clothes from the past," says Valerie Steele, the director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.). "Rather than buying a new slip dress, you find a slip from the 1930s that has been redyed...
...Wives have probably been hiding money from their husbands since marriage was invented. The Japanese have a special term for the secret funds: hesokuri, variously translated as belly-button money or spindle money. Before the revision of marital-property laws, a state-by-state process that took until the 1930s, American women had good reason to be stealthy about their hoards, says Princeton sociologist Viviana Zelizer, author of the Social Meaning Of Money. All household property legally belonged to their husbands. Zelizer tells of an early 20th century husband who got so tired of his wife's pinching coins from...
...after all. In his new book, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality, theoretical physicist Brian Greene ’84 suggests that time travel and teleportation are well within the realms of quantum mechanics, a conceptual framework of physics that emerged in the 1930s...