Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This autumn there is no fresher news in the world of art than the mushrooming of these Community Art Centres. Among the least publicized concerns of the Federal Art Project, they are fast becoming its most cherished offspring. Located mainly in cities where no art museums or schools previously existed, they have had an attendance so far of about 4,000,000 people-almost equal to the combined two years' attendance at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum and Chicago's Art Institute. They are designed to be, and promise to be, permanent; for they belong...
...this point, Viscount Runciman, British mediator who has been hoping to drag out negotiations until autumn, took action. Viscount Runciman had been 15 days in Czechoslovakia without meeting Konrad Henlein, who thought his prestige would be enhanced if he made the British lord call on him. This, the Viscount had refused to do, but in last week's emergency Lord Runciman consented to motor from Prague into the Sudeten Nazi territory and meet Herr Henlein in the castle of Prince Max von Hohenlohe, whose lands extend right up to the German frontier...
...concerned, was precisely where the summer left it - 13½ to 15½ in. from the ground. But full skirts, ranging from a gentle flare for daytime to romantic yard age for evening, were common, and observers who have watched this trend develop for several seasons conceded that this autumn it would probably be the rage...
...well publicized, and a notion has got abroad that Paris is losing initiative in setting fashions. Downright U. S. citizens who rather hoped so were thoroughly disabused last week when U. S. buyers and wholesalers flocked into Paris like homing birds for Fashion's greatest circus : the annual autumn openings of the great couturiers...
Because there is ice in Juneau harbor some months of the year, Pan American will use land planes instead of their big Clippers-probably the Boeing 307s, scheduled for delivery this autumn. Also it hopes to get Congress to build landing fields, on the same principle by which railroads got land grants. Chief lobbying point is military: when this last zig is filled in, Nome will be only 24 hours from Washington...