Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refinery. Politically Porto Rico wants full statehood (minor voices call for independence) or at least a civil territorial status like Hawaii and Alaska. Porto Ricans were outraged when the U. S. Congress at the last session classified it as a colony by appropriating $5,000 for it to exhibit at the International Colonial Exposition in France...
...Crimson won all their bouts in the foils and sabre classes, but lost the epee division to Yale. The College of the City of New York, which was expected to make a strong bid for the winning positions, failed to exhibit the anticipated strength. The fencing teams from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston College also failed to place...
...they had set for him. Rising to his feet just at the proper moment, the new Doctor of Laws asfounded the assembly with a Latin address in which Dr. Beck himself was unable to discover a single error. A brief quotation from this eloquent production will be sufficient to exhibit its character: 'Caveat emptor; corpus delicti; ex post facto; dies irae; e pluribus unum; usque ad nauseam; Ursa Major; sic semper tyrannis; quid pro quo; requiescat in pace'. Now this foolery was immensely taking in the day of it. . . The story was, on the whole, so good as showing...
...younger artists, among them: John Sloan, George Bellows, Robert Henri, Samuel Halpert. Since then New York has sprouted out all over with modernist galleries. The discovery of artistic talent has become a business as highly organized as philanthropy, with museums, trust funds, press agents of its own. Left to exhibit at the Independents' show are a few loyal veterans of its early days, and the hopelessly mediocre, the would-be humorists, the self-advertisers. Some 700 of them paid their $6 each last week to show 1,200 works...
...outdone, Chicago had its "independent" exhibit last week. The No-Jury Society of Artists showed 400 canvases. Reporters shook their heads over two pictures, Quaking Aspens and Desert Plains by Robert C. Zuppke, football coach of the University of Illinois...