Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like most hardworking people, lowans like detail. Rich in sharp, exact detail was Phil Stong's novel, State Fair, laid in Des Moines (TIME, May 9). But Phil Stong omitted one detail of the Iowa State Fair-the art contest for a sweepstakes prize. Last week as the 1932...
The Therese Russ swung round and made for the spot under full steam, swinging out lifeboats as she went. When they reached the spot every man but the cook and the captain went over the side to help in the rescue. Wireless messages sent speedboats from Kiel and the cruisers...
By late autumn Manhattanites will be able to enter the world's biggest theatre, five stories high, spired by 26 stories of Radio-Keith-Orpheum enterprises. In the domed grand foyer they will be faced by Muralist Ezra Winter's 60-ft. canvas showing the Fountain of Youth...
The painting was done by the great American naturalist in 1827 while he was on a visit to Scotland. It was painted for a Scottish nobleman whose family sold it some years ago to Mr. Thayer. The canvas is about six by nine feet, and has the qualities of an...
Battalino advanced as usual at the bell, his flat face screwed up ready for pain. He walked in at a crouch close to Petrolle with his hands up beside his ears, then suddenly cut loose with both hands, wide open. Coldly, Petrolle stabbed him with trip-hammer rights, straight lefts...