Word: exhibition
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patched-together devices constructed on such engineering principles as this: "The strength of a piece of string, as of a chain, lies in its weakest part, and surely it is wisdom to cut this out and tie in a stronger piece." In 1934 London's Ideal Homes Exhibition included one solemn Robinson exhibit which proved a sensation: a carefully constructed, full-size Robinson house fitted with Robinson gadgets. One of them: a baby-washer made of revolving stands, one for the baby, the other carrying soap, sponge and nailbrush; the baby was washed simply by revolving the stands...
Souvenirs. In Cincinnati, Mrs. Lena Coffin won, along with her divorce, $5,500 in war bonds and the custody of a carnival exhibit-a two-headed baby preserved in alcohol...
Last week the Army announced that G.I. theaters could not exhibit Darryl F. Zanuck's $5,000,000 Technicolorful Wilson. Also prohibited was a Fibber McGee movie called Heavenly Days, in which the irreverent Fibber, the wag of Wistful Vista, is selected Mr. Average Man in a Gallup Poll, goes to Washington, and is tossed out of the Senate when he tries to make a speech (see cut). Then the Army reversed its field and said it had not made up its mind yet. But it was firm on the rest of its bans. Army post exchanges...
...busy he can't take on something more, if he knows how to unload the detail. . . . We set up the blueprint of an organization. . . . We swear in the presidents of the companies as enforcement officers. They are instructed to haul the flag up over the plants and to exhibit the posters we send out explaining the situation. . . Last time we beat all records with the posters ... we got them out over the weekend...
Hoaxers MacAuley and Stewart confessed that they culled the first three lines of Culture as Exhibit from a U.S. report on mosquito breeding grounds...