Word: ashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sometimes lent a helping hand, four finalists were put through a test which suggested the ancient Pa-ku-wen of Imperial China.* In the exhibition hall of the Beaux-Arts Building carpenters built four little cubicles of composition board. Each was furnished with a drawing board, reading light, stool, ash trays, sets of drawing instruments and water colors. Just outside stood four army cots. Then for three successive weekends the four contestants were shut in these closets for 36 hours straight, given three successive problems to work out. Food and sleep were optional. First problem was to design a model...
...drive his car over Tarvia roads or keep out the rain with Barrett roofing; a housewife may buy Polar moth balls. But the average indirect consumer never sees the aniline in his blue serge suit, the tanning alkalis in his oxfords, the caustic soda in his soap, the soda ash in his window panes. For Allied is primarily a purveyor of heavy chemicals to heavy industry...
London police this week found a well dressed, be-monocled Englishman sleeping in an ash can, having started to sit up all night to get a view of King George's Silver Jubilee and imperceptibly slumped in, dozed off. Scotland Yard decided that to control the vast crowds which filled London's sidewalks and streets all night was both impossible and unnecessary. On the vast marble base of the Victoria Monument directly in front of Buckingham Palace a working class family camped elaborately, the husband shaving himself with brush dips into the fountain, then lighting an alcohol stove...
...lovely Tallulah, arrayed in a light green dressing gown, leaned forward and emphasized her remarks by the intensity of her voice. She is petite, just a shade over five feet, with ash blonde hair, and a trim, svelte figure...
...story is that the Babylonians had hemmed in the beleaguered city with a ring of uprooted olive trees, set them afire. Leader Starkey found a circle of charred stones and wood ash extending clear around the city. In the ashes were innumerable olive pits...