Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flash of the bulb are rapidly becoming familiar disturbances to the formerly pacific routine of daily existence. Basing its policy on the age-old concept that the little things in life are after all the most important, Life Magazine has commenced to invade the home, the theatre, the dance floor, and many less agreeable places where these little things may be seen to crop out. Feeling that the nightly American practice of undressing was a valuable and instructive field to attack, Life presented its million and a half readers with the proper and important methods of disrobing. In order...
Famous hoax publications by students of the college make up an exhibition on the Ground Floor Hall of Widener Library...
...Vermont Avenue near K Street, well off-centre in official Washington, stands the inconspicuous, yellowish little Denrike Building. Its ninth floor is occupied by Federal Laboratories, Inc., whose business, according to evidence lately presented before the Senate Civil Liberties Committee, consists largely of furnishing employers with arms and tear gas for use against striking workers. On the fourth to seventh floors are housed the National Labor Relations Board and its no employes. Since October 1935, obscured by a cloud of uncertain legality, hedged about by injunctions, its authority doubted by Labor and challenged by Capital, the Board has labored inconspicuously...
Next came the plow posture, "one of the finest exercises for keeping the spine flexible and the nerves healthy." The disciple lies on his back, slowly brings legs and torso over his head until the toes touch the floor and he can gaze only at his navel...
...formally announcing his appointment. After Mass, Archbishop Martínez began to sermonize. Just as the primate, whose cheerful grin for photographers belies his sober preoccupation with canon law and theology, reached the point where he promised "to comply with the desires of the Catholic people of Mexico," the floor directly in front of him fell in. With a terrible snapping and crackling, the ancient planks parted and 70 people dropped 18 feet into the 364- year-old crypt below. While brown-faced Boy Scouts scurried after the injured, helped the unharmed scramble from the pit and calmed the other...