Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city development shows that the camera can be made as sensitive to art as the human eye, and that there is a fine poetry in the clattering bigness of industrial activity which rivals the tranquility of classicism. Several of the photographs are studies in light and shadow on the clay models of Radio City, appear like actual buildings seen from the air. Richard and Hofmeister, Corbett, Harrison and MacMurray, Hood and Faulihour are the architects who have designed the Rockefeller project. It consists of eight separate units, staggered to admit maximum air and sunlight, all of which are connected...
...foot intervals each way over the entire extent of the basin to determine the character of the river bed and the depths of the various strata. In general, the bottom consists of a layer of mud and silt, under which is a layer of gravel, and below this is clay or hard pan. A curious thing that was made apparent, after dredging began, was that in sections of the basin there are large beds of oyster shells where the river flowed before the dam was constructed in 1908. Officials in charge expressed the opinion that these shells had been left...
...Clay Rabbits...
Fond of our prison and our clay...
Willie Johnson, 18, got Ruby Crook, 17, in trouble. The Crooks, finding Ruby pregnant, sent her away, promised "to take care of the Johnsons." While the rest of the community was attending services at the New Salem Baptist Church, on the border of Clay and Laurel Counties, the families met in the church yard. The Crooks "took care" of three Johnsons. The Johnsons "took care" of two Crooks. Willie Johnson survived with a slug...