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Word: floor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With internal construction proceeding rapidly on the fifth floor, University Hall is about to give birth to some more office space...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY KEEPS UP OFFICE SPACE DRIVE | 10/7/1937 | See Source »

...this year there is an imposing list of men who will expose their ideas, and then throw the floor open to debate and an exchange of varying viewpoints. Among this list of notables are Professors Munn, Sanders and Wild, and also Doctors Friedrich, Dunn and Nash. All of the lecturers will emphasize the extremely and practical useful role that the Christian Church can play in leading this chaotic world back to some degree of sanity, and they will lay particular stress on the present-day values of Christ's teachings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEOT WE FORGET | 10/6/1937 | See Source »

Suddenly the bust of himself, perched on top of the cabinet, toppled over, crashed George on top of the head, and tore a hole in the linoleum floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FALLING BRONZE BUST INJURES OWN SUBJECT | 10/5/1937 | See Source »

Shiva is the Hindu god of destruction. Shiva Temple was so named by Major John Wesley Powell, leader of the first white man's march through the Grand Canyon in 1869. Some 300 acres in extent, the plateau towers 4,000 ft. above the canyon floor, 1,200 above a saddle which runs across to the canyon wall, twelve miles from the Grand Canyon railroad station. The butte is said by geologists to have been carved out by erosion between 12,000 and 35,000 years ago. First reports made it appear that the plateau on top was something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Treasureless Island | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...October, Manhattan's first big all-trailer show appeared last week in Manhattan's ugly old brownstone 71st Regiment Armory. Twenty-four trailers, from a one-wheel duck hunter's camp to de luxe three-wheelers with bath, were parked on the Armory floor; outside, too big to trundle through the Armory's great doors, stood a shingle-roofed, imitation brick house on wheels. For seven days at the rate of about 100 an hour some 10,000 trailer-minded people leisurely examined the "future American home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Trailer Economics | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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