Word: corbetts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black holes, become invisible in a black building. By putting orange shades on the windows of the Daily News Building he used them as a part of a vertical motif of alternating white and reddish stripes. His blue-green McGraw-Hill Building was almost all window. With Harvey Wiley Corbett and Benjamin Wistar Morris he was an architect for Rockefeller Center. He rejoiced that the average life of a Manhattan skyscraper is only 20 years because it gave architects "a chance to experiment...
...beast, certainly would break the puncher's hand. There is no record of a prizefighter's trying it. However Max Baer, while helping his father in the butchering business in California, sometimes slugged cattle unconscious by punching them in the short ribs. Jack Dempsey, the late James J. Corbett and other pugilists have tried their hand at steer-knocking in the Chicago stockyards. The knocker wields a 3-lb. hammer, swings it down on the steer's skull, just above and between the eyes. The object is not to kill but to stun the animal to facilitate shackling for slaughter...
HARVARD PROVIDENCE Ware, cf. 3b., Madden Adzigian, 3b. 1b., Perrin Nevin, 1b. cf., Marion F. Gleason, lf. rf., Burns Gibbs, rf. lf., Koslowski Maguire, c. ss., Reilly Fitzpatrick, 2b. c., Tebbetts deGive, p. 2b., Corbett Woodruff, ss. p., Blanche...
...CORBETT'S LETTER IN THE MARCH 12 ISSUE OF TIME. AS ONE OF THE "ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY BRING UP THEIR OWN CHILDREN" MAY I STATE EMPHATICALLY THAT TO ME ANNE LINDBERGH IS THE EXEMPLIFICATION OF A REAL HELPMATE. SHE STICKS TIGHT TO HER HUSBAND AND SHARES HIS HAZARDS AND FURTHERMORE IS A REAL MENTAL COMRADE. THEY ARE ONE IN SPIRIT AND THAT IS WHAT A REAL MARRIAGE SHOULD BE. A WIFE'S MAIN INTEREST SHOULD BE HER HUSBAND. CHILDREN-ARE BUT A BY-PRODUCT THOUGH AN IMPORTANT BY-PRODl'CT OF MATRIMONY...
...more comments on Reader Corbett's estimate of Col. Lindbergh, see TIME Letters Supplement No. 5, available next week on request. Hereafter requests for the Letters Supplement, like all other correspondence regarding subscriptions, should be addressed to the Circulation Manager, 350 East 22nd St., Chicago. 111. Requests will be filled as received, beginning with the first available issue. Nos. 1, 2 & 3 have been exhausted. Editorial correspondence should be addressed to 135 East 42nd St., New York City...