Word: ironworking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cantabridgians who have puzzled over Mem Hall's wartime nudity can now rest assured that the situation is only temporary. University work crews will soon start reconstruction work which eventually should place slate, copper, and ironwork decorations back in their old positions atop the tower...
Professor Conant's plan call for replacing the wartime roof with the old-style gray slate, adding a touch of red striping for color. He also would return the ironwork fence, the original weather vanes, and the three small pinnacles which rose above each clock face...
...director of the Philadelphia Press (TIME, Oct. 29). His first teacher was Robert Henri, leader of the "Ash Can School" of painting, who scorned pastoral prettiness in art. In his teens Davis obediently wandered the streets of New York, sketching what he saw. He learned to love the rattling, ironwork kaleidoscope of city life, the eye-catching colors of chain-store fronts, gasoline pumps and taxicabs; the bright blinking of electric signs, and the hot beat and glare of Negro jazz. John Sloan, one of the Philadelphia Press artists, chose Davis' early work for the magazine The Masses...
...Hampshire has done something about it. Last week its League of Arts & Crafts put on its eighth annual fair in the hockey rink at Dartmouth College, Hanover. Attendance: 20,000. Sales: $10,000. On exhibition: the work of 2,000 Yankee citizens-tatting, wood carving, pottery, linoleum block prints, ironwork, jewel cutting (semiprecious stones), pins made from pine cones, baskets, buckwheat flour, etc. Most of it was spare time work done in back-street shops or snowbound, lamplit New England farmhouses. To meet stiff League standards, artisans can take lessons from League teachers (50? a lesson). They sell their wares...