Word: bend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...road he has seen and called attention to many an overgrown but inspiring ruin. He wrote the first history of painting of the 19th Century, started an arts & crafts shop, founded a literary journal (Pan), made European collectors aware of Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne. He went to Spain to bend the knee to Velazquez, returned a blazing disciple of El Greco. Though he is a frequent contributor to International Studio and Cahier d'Art, few of his more than 40 books have been translated. Some of them: Spanish Journey, Pyramid and Temple, Degas, Cezanne, Dostoevsky...
This "right," as newspapermen know full well, is one of the holies. It is asserted with high-flown argument of altruistic bend; it is strictly defended. First of all, one is told, H. A. A. assigns the Harvard numbers; H. A. A. therefore has the "right" to them. And if this suffices not, there is the nice financial syllogism. The H. A. A. News makes a neat profit,--1930-31 $2289.75, 1931-32 $11,201.93,--and thus enables Harvard men to have more athletic facilities. What alone makes the H. A. A. News valuable to advertisers and buyers...
...horizon of the sending station. Senator Marconi has made them register over a distance of 180 mi., or nine times his sending station's visible horizon, and has been able to communicate with them clearly and powerfully at five times the horizon. They register beyond mountains. Whether they bend over the mountain tops or go right through the mountains, he last week declared he did not know. Added he: "One definite fact about microwaves is that these waves are not susceptible in the slightest to static. I have tried them in thunderstorms where the lightning flashes were very close...
...Pico, Calif. Last month he got $1,000 for eight jumps at the California State Fair at Sacramento. On he went to Chicago for the International Air Races, spent the whole sum on four new 'chutes. Following the races he attended a party at the South Bend, Ind. home of Vincent Bendix (automobile and airplane parts). Another guest, Charles T. Otto, offered to fly him and a girl friend back across Lake Michigan's tip to Chicago in an autogiro. The 'giro never reached shore...
...mere procession of elections, legislatures, murders. It was "a new kind of apple, a crying child on the curb, the exact weight of a candidate for President, the latest style in whiskers, the idiosyncrasies of the City Hall clock, a new football coach at Yale, a vendetta in Mulberry Bend...