Word: key
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House President Hoover touched a gold telegraph key that officially opened a $5,800,000 bridge across the Columbia River, connecting Oregon and Washington at Long View, Wash...
...course necessary to report minutely to the imperial ancestors at their shrines all about New Tokyo. With this duty in mind, the Emperor entered an open touring car and, followed by 29 carfuls of dignitaries, made the rounds of nearly all places key-numbered...
...sound like a folktune a thousand years old and that he can be funny as well as sentimental. Mammy is as silly as most other Jolson pictures. Irving Berlin, who wrote the tunes, wrote the story too-a backstage triangle with a "mother angle" thrown in to key up the sentiment. Jolson does a drunk scene and sings many times. The tunes are better than some of Berlin's, but not so good as the old favorites Jolson sings again: "Who Paid the Rent for Mrs. Rip Van Winkle?" "The Albany Night Boat," and an even older one, shuffled...
Everyone vaguely understands that textiles are one of England's key industries, that India is this industry's key customer, and that if Mr. Gandhi could fire his countrymen with a sufficient resolve to buy not one snippet more of English cloth but to spin and weave their own, the result would be even more poverty-pinched faces in Lancashire than one sees there already (TIME...
...technique. Says he: ". . . who shall say where the 'manual dexterity' leaves off and the mysterious alchemy of that intensely personal thing, 'touch,' begins? . . . The ponderables and imponderables in this matter are inextricably fused. To grasp the former is to lay hold of an infallible key to the latter. In other words, the painter's craft, allied as it is to 'manual dexterity,' is first and last an index to the painter's artistic character...