Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tube, now carrying two-way traffic. The other will be finished in 1941, when each tube will carry one-way traffic. The completed structure lies under 20 feet of silt, 75 feet below the Hudson's surface. It is just over 1½ miles long, ceilinged in glass tile, employed 1,300 WPA workers at an average $1 per hour, is fitted on the Manhattan side with approaches which fan into half-a-dozen little feeder streets. Authorized fortnight ago was construction of a cross-town vehicular tunnel which will connect the Lincoln Tunnel to the abuilding Queens Midtown...
Meanwhile the magic looking glass has told the Queen that Snow White still lives...
...wood rush to the dwarfs. After an awful chase through gloomy mountain chasms the dwarfs force the Queen to the edge of a precipice and a thunderbolt tumbles her over. Snow White seems dead, but the dwarfs cannot bear to part from her. They let her sleep in a glass coffin. One day the Prince, wandering far and wide, hears of the girl who lies asleep in a glass box and when he sees her, kisses her. Snow White awakes and there is gaiety...
...bacteriologists by the dozen (and was photographed with them hovering around his desk). As with similar epidemics in hospital nurseries of Manhattan, Seattle, Toronto, they could find no definite cause for the disease. Their best advice was prevention. Modern technique requires that every baby should have individual linens, separate glass-enclosed cubicles in which to lie. Visitors should be kept away from the infants for the first three weeks, the time when they are most vulnerable to virulent diarrhea. Above all, babies should nurse only from the breast when at all possible. The old medical maxim that...
...ground floor of the White House there is a big room lined with large, locked, glass-fronted bookcases. This is the White House Library. Spacious but bare, it has only a few hundred books on the white-framed shelves designed to hold almost 2,000. Last week a committee representing the American Booksellers Association carried to Washington 200 more volumes for the great open spaces on the White House shelves-a collection of 34 biographies...