Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audacious touch in Moscow last week was for Intourist guides to tell visiting foreigners: "Our new Constitution is a million times more Democratic than any other!" The new and adroit Communist Constitution, indeed, almost entitled J. Stalin to rank with the immortal H. Dumpty of Through the Looking-Glass who boasted, "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean...
...brontosaurus, a facetiously polysyllabic and mildly risque poem about a mermaid and an octopus, articles on the musk ox and the flying fox of Australia; also included was a business-like list of catalogs for the sale of such natural history specimens as human skeletons. North American bird eggs, glass models of invertebrates. This periodical, published by Ward's Natural Science Establishment of Rochester, N. Y. was probably the earliest scientific "house organ...
...unknown to the American art public. Following the lead of Cezanne, Gaugin, Picasso, and Matisse, his paintings have a hazy quality which make them difficult to understand at first glance. With a little study, however, the colors come out with a vibrancy which is usually found only in stained glass windows or a mosaic...
...demonstrate the efficacy of Sears Roebuck's best chicken feed, Sears-Roebuck's Lancaster, Pa. Manager Mark Wayne Ansbach last spring popped a Plymouth Rock pullet named Priscilla into a big glass jar, placed the jar in his store window. Priscilla thrived on her mail-order diet, soon grew so large that she could not be removed from the jar. The S. P. C. A. arrested Mr. Ansbach, got him fined $10. He appealed...
...this was not additional work: it was work done in the autumn and winter which would otherwise be done in the spring. But it meant that nearly 100,000 more motor workers had jobs when they most needed them. In the industries which supply the motor trade like steel, glass, rubber, chemicals, textiles, the pre-year plan made another 50,000 winter jobs...