Word: decays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cathedral of Chartres, delicate, lacelike, had been built in Hartford, Conn., it would probably by this time be a chipped and crumbling mass. Reason: U. S. climate is inimical to fine sculptural stonework. Last week Sculptor George Grey Barnard had much to say about the decay of the medieval sculptures in the famed Cloisters established by himself in upper Manhattan and later purchased by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. for Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Most of this outdoor statuary has disintegrated more in its 20 years in the U. S. than in the preceding six centuries in Europe. Even the indoor...
William Vincent Astor has been interested in mechanics ever since, in his late teens, he greasily dismembered his Franklin automobile. During the War his mechanical bent led him to ships, and he rose from U. S. ensign to lieutenant, served in foreign waters. Nor did his interest in ships decay with peace. Last year there was delivered to him the Nourmahal, biggest oil-burning yacht in the world. Since its owner is Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, the Nourmahal is the Club flagship. Indeed the Astor interest in the sea is so great as to be almost exclusive...
...moon decay...