Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest argument for donations which Mr. Osborn has is the museum's increasing popularity. Attendance . exceeded 1,000,000 in 1932 and rose steadily to 2,491,582 last year, will surpass that this year. Through motion picture and lantern slide shows and circulating collections, curators last year reached another 40,000,000 minds...
...glancing at his letters, he burst into a hearty laugh and exclaimed, 'As a painter, Mr. Healy, you shall be a judge between this unknown correspondent and me. She complains of my ugliness. . . . She wishes me to put on false whiskers, to hide my horrible lantern jaws. Will you paint me with false whiskers...
...Lantern slides will help describe the highlights of several years' excavations in Yucatan and Guatemala...
...origins of the force it presents as a maladministered boon. Technically it begins with the definition of a kilowatt hour ("When this thousand-watt bulb burns for an hour, that's a kilowatt hour"). From then on, by means of a pedagogical disembodied Voice, cartoon and scenic lantern slides, motion pictures and dialog between fictional and actual characters, Power grows into a loud and lively indictment of the U. S. power business's many frauds and follies. By taking stock shares out of one pocket and putting them in another, an impersonator of Samuel Insull demonstrates...
...October 1871, the legendary Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over a lantern in the city of Chicago and caused the great $200,000,000 fire. In the next few months 68 U. S. insurance companies failed and 81 were forced to suspend business outside their own States. To pay off claims against it of $529,365 required not only every cent of Fireman's Fund capital but an assessment on its stockholders. Chairman Levison likes to boast of this as the first time the company went broke and yet survived. The second time was after...