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...wall refuses to tumble into the cellar. Outside, on Kosciusko Square, dozens of spectators gape at the crumbling magnificence that is about to be. John sees the trouble is that the cable is pulling at the side of a short but fat pillar which used to support the basketball floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hemenway Gymnasium Collapses Before Vicious Onslaughts of House Wreckers Who Cheer Wildy As They Tear It Down | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

...Leipzig's famed Trade Fair last week went Reich Air Minister Göring and trainloads of important Army officers, not to gape at sample booths but to pay homage to a small young woman with curly hair and a timid voice. Though women in business are anathema to orthodox Nazis, Fraulein Martha Burger is one they cannot do without. An engineer and steel technician, she has designed a line of bombproof steel houses, and bombproof and gasproof cellars for houses already up, that have withstood dozens of tests from Germany's air force. At Leipzig last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bombproof | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...Moscow correspondents and cinemen representing Tass, official Soviet news agency. Seemingly supplied with unlimited funds and spending right & left, they say they are "preparing a complete photographic document of Ethiopia," were splashing vigorously about in Dessye last week making most elaborate shots of His Imperial Majesty for Bolsheviks to gape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Defeat of the Press | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...general public was not admitted. For tool makers the Show is a great fair, with sales the primary objective. About 5,000 people were connected with the exhibition, 1,500 alone running machines. The visitors were largely engineers and executives from industrial plants throughout the world who went to gape if not to buy. Even General Motors' Knudsen thought it worth his while to attend, and no less than 49 Russians turned up to purchase equipment for Soviet factories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Power & Precision | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

...larger division, the workers pity the butterflies, social, sporting or arty, and gape at the way they spend their time, while the butterflies hover contemptuously round the drone workers, and wonder what fun they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cambridge Letter | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

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