Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greninger is at present studying Martensite, one of the hardening constituents of steel. Although a great deal of work has been done on this problem, very few fundamental facts are as yet known. However, Dr. Greninger is attacking the problem with great success, as the first step in a new extended study of the transformations which occur during the heat treatment of steel...
...Columbus was again being partly rebuilt, not in her birthplace Danzig, but at the foot of Manhattan's 46th St.-where, with 350 of her 600 crew sent on part pay to Germany for seven weeks, North German Lloyd officials figured the work could be done cheaper. On the sun deck $100,000 is being spent to provide 500 cruise passengers with a 20 ft. by 28 ft. open-air tiled swimming pool with dressing rooms and showers for 50, a dance floor 20 ft. by 60 ft. raised three feet above the deck and lighted from below...
Cleveland's show, "Sculpture of Our Time," included 103 pieces by 60 artists, borrowed from museums, galleries, private collectors and the sculptors themselves. One of the weightiest pieces in the exhibition was Head of an Indian, done in 3,300 Ib. of Mexican onyx by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles. Its transportation from St. Paul, Minn, indicated the ambitiousness of the Museum's show. Other monumental statues were a bronze by the late, great Gaston Lachaise, Standing Woman, and an already famed piece in marble by William Zorach, Mother and Child...
Three sculptors included in the Cleveland show, Zorach, Heinz Warneke and John Flannagan, got a more varied display of their work in Manhattan's Passedoit Gallery, sharing honors with Spaniard Jose de Creeft, whose Semitic Head was the most impressive single piece on display. Done in beaten lead, this dark maiden was also highest priced ($4,000) in the exhibit...
Otto Schniebs is a solid little Bavarian, who has probably done more for the promotion of skiing in the U. S. than any other person. Until last year he was ski coach at Dartmouth College, where he turned out six championship teams in six years. His Dartmouth pupils, all very fond of him, constantly baited him just to hear him reply in his terrific guttural accent. A few years ago a pupil asked him what to do if, on a downhill run, he should suddenly rush upon a spot studded with rocks and trees. Replied astute Otto Schniebs...