Word: arps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...modern art until 1937, when she was 39. To learn what it was all about she went to see Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp. "Every woman in Paris wanted to sleep with him," she confides. "His particular vice was ugly mistresses." Duchamp passed her on to Sculptor Hans Arp, "an excellent poet and a most amusing man. . . . The first thing I bought for my collection was an Arp bronze...
...these activities have now become overshadowed by the war. P.B.H.'s War Service Committee is the center of blood and bond drives around the college; it sponsors police forces, fire fighters, and ARP wardens. And in line with its traditional policy of experimentation, Brooks House is now hard at work at its newest project, "contacting" all undergraduates who leave college for the Armed Services, keeping track of their location, readdressing mail, procuring them invitations from families of Harvard men, and keeping them in touch with what is going on in Cambridge...
...there is an enemy rocket raid, "polish up [your] ARP...
...meantime Harvard's ARP services, ten in all, which includes fire, medical, gas, water, electric, demolition, bomb reconnaissance groups, ran through their paces in this theoretical raid. Each group made its report to an umpire at the Yard whence they went on their missions. The services were rated on how well they performed their duties and how long it took them to make their report...
...control centers the services showed that they were extremely well constructed," he said. "The wardens were alert, on the job, and turned in their reports promptly. The navy unit located in the Yard was present with its services ready for the sudden emergency. On the whole it shows the ARP personnel at Harvard is well organized to meet an air raid...