Word: hoppered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Museum's second floor was devoted to modern pictures by such standbys as Marsh, Curry, Benton, Biddle, Hopper, Burchfield, Sloan, et al. More interesting were the 19th Century paintings that filled the ground floor-sentimental middle-class canvases by comfortable middle-class artists entirely unaware of breadlines, the plight of the masses, the villainy of capitalists or any of the other things that excited the brushes of their successors upstairs...
...Eldon, Mo., Charles Caldwell started the engine of his dump truck while it was in the basement garage of his house. He had forgotten to take the hoisting apparatus out of gear. The rising hopper lifted the house six inches off its foundations before Mrs. Caldwell stopped...
...hired another fine little woman in my county, the wife of a professional man who needed not the position, and paid her $127.50 per month to teach the good old country housewives out in the hills how to make soap-and God knows she had never seen an ash hopper in her life! In two other counties in my district the New Dealers have employed three men, Government agents at good salaries, to roam over the hills in Wright and Howell Counties hunting for Indian mounds. After several weeks' search I asked if any mounds had been found...
...President sent a report on social security drafted not by a man picked by God but by his Cabinet Committee on Economic Security, assisted by civitarians, welfare workers, actuaries, medical men, etc. Within the hour an Administration Bill embodying the Committee's proposals was in the legislative hopper. Its chief points...
Included on the school's curriculum, in addition to Professor Sprague's lecture, will be speeches by eight other Harvard professors on subjects ranging from "Social Equilibrium" to "The Clash of Nations in Manchuria." Other Harvard men will be: Bruce C. Hopper '24, professor of Government, William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, Eugen Rosenstock-Hussy, retiring Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture, Elton B. Mayo, professor of Industrial Management in the Business School...