Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among them the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Science & Industry ("Rosenwald Industrial Museum"), Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum, Washington's Smithsonian Institution...
...wipe out opposition to the Stalinist regime. Persons accused of being "wreckers, Trotskyists, Rightists, diversionists, counterrevolutionaries, saboteurs" are in fact generally guilty of just-one common crime-deviation from the "party line." So changing, undefined is this line that almost every Russian writer or speaker on Soviet politics, art, literature, social studies, must have been guilty at one time or another of an utterance which could now condemn him as an "enemy of the people...
...Louis Franck did not have so acceptable an explanation for his part in the affair. It was true that the van Zeeland salary was still on the bank's books, he said, but part of this money had been used for charity and the acquisition of works of art. The remainder the other directors had appropriated as compensation for doing Paul van Zeeland's work...
...late John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who is reputed to have wagered that sum on the outcome of a race between two raindrops down a Pullman window. By last week it appeared that such stories may soon have a new hero in the person of Owner Art Rooney of the Pittsburgh (pro football) Pirates...
Last fortnight, when Placid Art Rooney appeared at the opening of the Aqueduct track on Long Island, bookmakers shuddered to hear that in one day he had won $100,000. So far no one has computed how much Rooney has lost, but he is reputed to have $100,000 of his winnings salted safely away in annuities. His smallest, typically lucky wager was $400 he won last fortnight by betting that Tommy Farr would stay 15 rounds against Joe Louis...