Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexican exhibit, at Hunt Hall, includes over two hundred photographs illustrating this nation's modern "renaissance" of building design in the construction of every important type of building from the simplest workers' houses and private dwellings to large office buildings, hospitals, markets, warehouses, schools, factories, airports...
Manhattan's ingenious American Museum of Natural History last week got ready to exhibit the newest trick in museum educational work. Back of a picket fence the visitor sees a stuffed hen looking at a painting of other hens and a rooster in a barnyard (see cut). As the visitor looks a loudspeaker narrates: "The hens in the barnyard seem to us all very much alike. We would have great difficulty in distinguishing one from another if we did not put rings or other identification marks on their legs. But to the hen every other hen in the yard...
...workers assigned to the museum by the Government built the barnyard exhibit and are at work on five others which show how different creatures see the world. To a dog all things are grey, because dogs are colorblind. Fish are nearsighted and the refraction of water distorts the feet of a fisherman standing on a bank. The mosaic structure of a fly's eye gives him a multitude of images. A turtle's world is a shifting scene of bright spots because light Attracts its eyes. A huge chameleon will turn the color of the clothes...
When the class objected to the estimate of $2000 damage, including two new fire hoses, the janitor locked the Common Room as "exhibit A" until the management could see for themselves. As yet no estimate on the damage has been given, but when it is, it will be divided among the members of the class, it is understood...
First versions of "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer, "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke, and other famous poems originally published in "Poetry" magazines are on exhibit in the Poetry Room of Widener Library...