Word: cedars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 Fair began, this year's sweepstakes was won again, as it has been every year since 1929, by Painter Grant Wood of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, an even more passionate detail-monger than Author Stong. Other prizes went to amateur artists from Grinnell, Schaller, Independence, Des Moines, Ames, Iowa City and What Cheer. Grant Wood, 40, was born at Anamosa, Iowa. His Iowa landscapes look like photographs of landscapes modelled out of hard candy...
Many colleges require able-bodied students to engage in athletics. If a student hurts himself while competing in sports, can he sue his college for damages? In a Los Angeles hospital last week one Charles Groh, 21, thought that he could. In a damage suit filed against Coe College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) he said that in October 1929 he was required "without physical examination and without the consent of his parents" to enter a cross-country run in a dual meet with Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, Iowa). Student Groh ran until exhausted, fell, hurt his spinal column. For four months...
...show's organizer was Miss Cati Mount, 24, brash enfante terrible of Chicago's art world. A graduate of the Art Institute, she runs the Little Gallery in the old Auditorium Building. Last week she sat under a yellow umbrella, leaning on a cedar cane, showing red toenails through her pointed sandals, and snappily ran the show...
Madison, Wis. last year had the highest rate which Dr. Hoffman could recognize? 44.8 per 100,000. Next were Sacramento (44.3), San Diego (44), Cedar Rapids...
...takes a month to make a penny pencil, six months for a 10? pencil. Cedar wood is best. When the cedar forests of the South began to be exhausted the pencil-makers frantically bought cedar fences and log cabins but now the West's cedar stands, although inferior in quality, are considered adequate. A good pencil could draw a line from 35 to 70 mi. long before it was worn out. One of the best of recent pencil years was 1927. Lead Pencil Institute reported 6,100,000 gross of pencils valued at $14,477,000 sold that year...