Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand teachers gathered in Geneva's great exposition hall last week, roamed among 140 stands of educational exhibits. Teachers of children examined with interest a tremendous collection of the world's best children's books, partially selected by children themselves.* Progressive pedagogs stopped in the commercial section where educational films were being projected continually, or wandered to the exhibit of Britain's use of radio in teaching. Most modern, and with greatest possibilities perhaps, was a "home talkie" made by Home Talkie Productions, Inc., giving a biology professor's lecture as if he were...
...flew the first airplane across the English Channel, from Calais to Dover.-* Just now Louis Bleriot is in Paris receiving plaudits for the anniversary. From Paris he will go to London for more plaudits and a pleasant sight-a model of his plane prominently displayed in the historical aviation exhibit of London's International Aero Exhibition, which the Prince of Wales opened last week...
...Denver citizens a chance to read. When this was accomplished the new Librarian promptly began working on another radical theory, that the library could cooperate with the schools. He soon opened the first children's department in the country, expanded the function of the library with an art exhibit...
When en art museum was begun in the Newark Library,* Librarian Dana insisted that beauty must be associated with utility. One day museumgoers were shocked by an exhibition of modern open-plumbing. Another day Newark art-lovers trooped to see an exhibit arranged, designed and specially announced by Mr. Dana. In whispers they exclaimed over the beauty of the bowls, the form of the colored vases. Wisely they nodded their arty heads over the placard "Beauty has no relation to age, rarity or price." Then one art-lover gave an exclamation. The others fluttered to the side of the afflicted...
...developed along with the growth of the company. No transportation problem existed in 1868 when Charles and Maximilian Fleischmann, immigrants from Austria-Hungary, and James Gaff of Cincinnati, founded Gaff, Fleischmann & Co. at Riverside, Ohio. Their first great forward step was made in 1876 when they exhibited a Model Vienna Bakery at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. From the fame of this exhibit came an increased demand for Fleischmann's yeast. Soon there was a Fleischmann plant on Long Island, then another at Peekskill, N. Y, Guiding spirit of the early Fleischmann company was Charles Fleischmann, who died...