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...where-in the sprinter learns that scientists can predict his times from only two or three "medical" observations, and so on. Nor do all these facts and thoughts stick out like a sore thumb in the book, as they do here. Far from that, they form part of the fabric of the text, and all contribute to give the reader a clearer and broader view of the place that he and his body, and all "living machinery" hold in the scheme of things...
...just part of Director Rosing's scheme, clapped the Jones sets, the gabbling street mob that crowded in on the dying Valentin, the conducting of Frank St. Leger* who with a small orchestra wove Gounod's share of it all into a rich, seamless fabric. Critics used big words-big words, capitalized-Art, Beauty, Intelligence. They endorsed just as emphatically the Madame Butterfly and The Marriage of Figaro that rounded out the Washington run, prophesied a big future for the new American Company whose first season will include a seven weeks' run in Manhattan to begin...
...Story: Designers last week exhibited in Manhattan (at the Art Centre show) silk dress fabric taking as motifs jazz bands, Fifth Avenue crowds, ticker tape, rollercoasters, etc. In similar designs are printed linens and other fabrics for drawing-room hangings. Graphic art is represented in the work of F. V. Carpenter. He has designed a pattern portraying Manhattan's shopping district with its pedestrians & automobiles. Other designers have used toboggan slides and umbrellas, massed lines, moving lines of busses and cars. Artist John Held Jr. has done a jazz band-round bald heads, heads with sparse hair, their owners...
...York, Boston, Buffalo, Trenton and Newark; will get current from hydro-electric establishments at Niagara Falls, at Conowingo (now building by Philadelphia Electric) and on the St. Lawrence River near Ogdensburg, N. Y. (planned by General Electric). Although physical properties of these companies will be as one, their financial fabric cannot be closely knit under present interpretations of anti-trust laws. Anticipating that Congress will discuss such power mergers, interested companies are putting into motion a vast machinery to explain to Congress and to the voters the powerman's attitude...
...have tried before to connect history with the reality of life, and not merely with its flags and trappings, who have realized, to quote the Beards themselves, that "the heritage, politics, economics, culture and international filiations of any civilization are so closely woven by fate into one fabric that no human eye can discern the beginning of its warp or woof." For in these two volumes, on a scale never before attempted by any American scholar, the Beards have tried to gather and to express the formative influences, the circumstances and the results of all that has gone to make...