Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Art, in Music, in Religion and in Science, 1936 was barren of a Man or Woman of the Year. Typical was Mme Curie-Joliot, daughter of the late great discoverer of radium, who became in 1936 one of the first three women ever to reach French Cabinet rank. Not one of these proved an outstanding success and Mme Curie-Joliot, disgusted with what she saw of politics, soon resigned. No Einstein Theory shot meteoric across Science's sky, no deathless melody, canvas or sculpture won world acclaim...
Last week from the auditorium walls of Washington's new Department of Labor Building ten flat black & tan faces stared importantly out over a large audience. In the audience, hundreds of three-dimensional black & tan faces beamed pridefully back. The flat faces belonged to Federal Art Project portraits of men who have served the District of Columbia as Recorders of Deeds since Reconstruction days. The three-dimensional faces belonged to leaders of Washington's largo Negro population who turned out in formal attire to witness the unveiling of the portraits. They had come to pay homage...
Armed with blanket authority and a $25,000 appropriation, Montana's Burton Kendall Wheeler set out a year ago last May to show the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, of which he is chairman, precisely how the art of railroad finance had been practiced in the U. S. in late years. Hand-picked for the Senate by Railroad Coordinator Joseph B. Eastman was a list of likely subjects. Much of the preliminary field work in the investigation was done by the experienced staff of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Named as inquisitor was Max Lowenthal, lawyer-author of The Investor Pays...
...pinched oil company, stayed to form his own New York Stock Exchange firm two years later. About him he gathered a group of people mostly oldtime mining men, who also liked long shots. They promoted the centrifugal method of making cast iron pipe, a process which revolutionized that ancient art. They put $2,000,000 into the neutrodyne patents of an obscure Stevens Institute professor named Louis Alan Hazeltine, "the man who took the squeak out of radio...
...real art of waxing comes in combining various forms of waxes. For instance, on a long tour the snow at the starting point is fairly wet, but a few hundred feet above it is freezing. For this one can put on an original coating of medium," allow it to cool, and cover it with a very thin coating of "mix." The "mix" will glide well over the dry snow at the beginning of the run down, and will wear off soon after reaching the wet snow, then the under coating of medium will serve its purpose...