Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mississippi's Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo arosein the Senate one day last week to display a bulky petition. It bore,said he, the names of 2,500,000 U. S. Negroes who would prefer to live in Africa. For three-and-a-half hours and 26 pages in the Congressional Record, he expanded on a way to make this possible: let the Government establish a Greater Liberia for "repatriated" blacks...
Last week, however, Allison had its newest secret, the world's most powerful aircraft engine, on display in G. M.'s Building on New York's World's Fair grounds for all to see. Because it was displayed as casually as Poe's purloined letter, few visitors paid any attention...
Sponsored by the Counsellors of American civilization, the photographic exhibit now on display in the Straus Hall Common Room portrays the life of the contemporary American tenant farmer and sharecropper...
...pictures, taken under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration, will be on view daily from 3 to 5 o'clock until Friday, and a Counsellor will be at hand to explain the display...
...type of concerts which we shall hear is determined by the taste of the audiences and of the musicians themselves. Public attitude may vary from open-mouthed admiration of technical flash and display which considers music a medium for vocal and instrumental acrobatics, to the most discriminating intellectual interest in the music itself. Of course, these public demands are answered by corresponding types of musical supply. For instance, the concert of the Oslo University Chorus on Saturday evening catered frankly, and rather pleasantly, to the love which everyone has for ear-tickling vocalism without much fuss about the selection...