Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening message to the legislature last week, Governor White expressed the pious hope that all homesteads be exempted, not only from the four-mill State tax but from the 15 to 7O-mill taxes levied by town & county governments. Without specifying exactly how this was to be done or recommending any substitute taxes to make up an estimated $7,500,000 loss in revenue, Governor White declared: "The home is a home, whether it be occupied by a man of wealth or by a man who must earn his daily bread by his daily toil. . . . An amendment to the constitution...
...summoned by telegraph, arrived, reported that he was unable to confirm the Jauncey results. Zahn, however, had used a differently arranged apparatus. Nobel Laureate Arthur Holly Compton of the University of Chicago, a onetime colleague of Jauncey's at St. Louis, pored over his experiments, pronounced them competently done but would not commit himself as to their validity. Dr. Compton added somewhat superfluously that they would be of great importance to the whole structure of modern physics if they were confirmed...
Since then, bobbing up. for the third time, Frank Lloyd Wright has done per-haps his most amazing work. In 1929 he designed for Manhattan an apartment house of concrete, steel and glass more radical and inventive than any even proposed in functionalist Europe. This and a grander design for a desert resort in Arizona were kept off the ground by Depression. Wright's desert camp of canvas and boxwood, built by his apprentices in 1929, stands as one of his most brilliant pieces of geometrical design. Still ignored by conventional architects, never invited to take part...
...most absorbing element, of course, is the characters, and these cannot be considered separately from the actors. The representer is as Irish as the represented, and the Abby Players have done as much as Mr. O'Casoy in creating the persons of his plays. F. J. McCormick is Commandant Jack Clitheree, who quits the Irish Citizen's Army at the supplication of his wife, but returns when he learns that he is in a position of command, and dies. Mr. McCormick is a great actor, but he is the most shadowy of the major figures in this play. Eileen Crowe...
...What's your name?" he ventured after a while, at his book and though that if it was between Jeanic and Gini he'd take Jeanie. He didn't get much Sociology done...