Word: dowsing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To the Chateau Frontenac, a U.S. physician named Dr. George Dows Cannon wired ahead for $12-a-day accommodations. He did not mention that he and his wife were Negroes. When they showed up, they were given a fine room overlooking the St. Lawrence. For three days they had no...
Beneath "the surface placidity Philadelphians knew that the possibility of real race trouble was present as never before. Philadelphia has 270,000 Negroes, but it has no Harlem: the Negro sections are small, scattered pockets throughout the city. On the first night of the strike, in half-a-dozen sections...
Last week 200 of Bruce's Government-owned water colors were put on exhibition at Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. Nearly all of them were U.S. landscapes: from New England farmhouses to California hills. Many were by such capable U.S. artists as John Edward Heliker, Adolf...
Put on exhibition last fortnight at Boston's big Museum of Fine Arts, this fragile limestone and plaster bust of Prince Ankh-haef of ancient Egypt had to be put in a special airconditioned showcase, because changes of humidity might crumble it. Every day Associate Curator Dows Dunham, of...