Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With these and other clues Clark was able to fix at least one dated drawing for every five years of Leonardo's career. The drawings begin vigorously and experimentally, turn precise and dry, explore and finish the possibilities of silverpoint, then drop silverpoint entirely, solve the problems of shading in concave spaces to define forms, turn to red chalk in a bold, open style, then to pen & ink and black chalk, once again with exquisite neatness but with a new heavy deliberation and economy. Finally, as the paralysis began to clamp on the heavy-bearded, 60-year...
...real work begins when he turns the chair over to a colleague and wanders down to the floor to confer with Senators, when he chats with Senatorial friends over a few highballs in his office, when Leader Robinson, Whip Harrison and other Administration men of House and Senate drop in to consult him. For he is recognized as a wise old man of Congress. A word from him and the strategy of handling a bill may be changed overnight. Seldom does he speak of the merits of a bill, but to those who want to know he drops a hint...
...Hayes's latest nostrum is Marmola, a tablet containing thyroid substance, which he markets over drugstore patent medicine counters as a cure for obesity. Like all thyroid preparations, Marmola may cause a user to drop dead, or cripple control his heart, unless a physician stands by to control the dosage and reduction in weight. Vainly various agencies have tried to stop the sale of Marmola. Last week the Federal Communications Commission tried its hand by threatening to take licenses away from 21 radio stations from Rochester to San Francisco, Los Angeles to Miami, if they did not cease broadcasting...
...tall, handsome, white-haired scholar with two sons away at school. When he seeks relaxation from writing such works as An Introduction to the Study of Medieval Versions of the Story of Troy or such moral treatises as The Life Everlasting and The Farther Shore, Professor Griffin can always drop in on friends of the Harvard faculty, or listen to the Glee Club sing in the Yard, or walk along the river...
Last week the vernal urge of U.S. citizens to get together and discuss their trade problems was manifest in scores of powwows up & down the land. In Washington the Oyster Growers & Dealers Association of North America puzzled over the decline in oyster eating: U.S. oyster consumption has dropped in 25 years from 230,000,000 lb. annually to 60,000,000 lb. In St. Louis members of the Associated Stock Exchanges heard the first public speech of Charles R. Gay, new president of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Gay pleaded for a better understanding of his institution...