Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State's two Democratic machines may help him to elect six Republican Representatives in addition to the six who represent the party now, will not be much more than a preliminary gun next week. By the end of May there will be 95 Republican candidates in the field and by the end of July, 156. To Joe Martin, the candidate is always more important than the issue, the place more vital than the program, but by last week he and grey-haired Mr. Venable, whose job is to pre-audit votes for the Congressional Committee as Emil Hurja...
...some months an important architectural exhibition has been circulating among U. S. colleges. Under the auspices of The American Russian Institute and such distinguished U. S. architects as Frank Lloyd Wright, William Lescaze, Joseph Hudnut, the exhibition illustrates the immense field of Soviet architecture and city planning. Last week, in Robinson Hall of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, of which Joseph Hudnut is dean, the 47 panels of Soviet plans and photographs were standing a severe if mute criticism. Displayed in the centre of the hall were scale models of housing projects, factories and homes designed not by Russian...
...Klee's methods of drawing has been summed up by Critic Herbert Read as "taking a walk with a line." This is an accurate description not only of his procedure but sometimes of his scale: the expanse of paper or canvas being imagined as a field of any dimension up to, and possibly including, infinity. It is Perambulator Klee's frequent achievement not only to imagine such a field for himself but to open it up somehow to the spectator. One water color in last week's show, Bird, Ph Feeds Ur with the Snake, at first...
...giant pandas, three of them male cubs, which he had found in Western Szechuan Province. An American banker in China who turned big-game hunter more than 15 years ago, gaunt, bespectacled Floyd Smith has spent most of his 55 years abroad, notably in the Orient. Chicago's Field Museum has sponsored many of his expeditions, though lately he has worked for the London Zoo and the British Museum. Two years ago he formed a panda-hunting partnership with William H. Harkness Jr., but the latter died just before they were to start. Later Mrs Harkness tried in vain...
...half ago. however, a Federal grand jury brought in indictments against John W. Gilliland, president of Bell General Pipe Line Co. of Gladewater, and 24 others, most of them employes of Bell General and its subsidiaries. Bell General is considered the largest independent pipe line in the East Texas field, which indicated the Connally Act was at last to be invoked in earnest. By last week 23 of the 25 had posted bond. One of the other two was variously reported as being in Spain and the Samoa Islands...