Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backneyed cliches of our introductory fine arts courses, which, after all, whether trite or significant, do at least say and mean something. How intriguing, how illuminating, how it enhances one's appreciation to learn that Degas' dancing girls were "almost vicious in their vices," and "Picasso's use of line has form and solidarity (sic!) which can hardly be excelled and his handling of many different bodily postures is expert in the highest degree!" What imbecile would be willing to confess to writing such tripe. Yours truly, Albert K. Cohen...
...minutes left to play, canny Coach Bierman frantically called from the sidelines his only able passer, Harold Van Every, who had been out with a kidney ailment since the first game of the year. Before the astonished spectators knew what it was all about, Minnesota had crossed the goal line and had kicked the extra point-something that Michigan had failed to do earlier in the quarter. With Van Every's surprise attack, Minnesota, outplayed in every department, had in time's nick defended...
...Extended its easy credit policy to railroad equipment trust certificates. Heretofore, with the exception of the World War period, the Interstate Commerce Commission has always required a 25% down payment by railroads on equipment purchases financed by equipment trust certificates. Last August ICC allowed Seaboard Air Line Ry., which is in reorganization, to finance 90% of a $1,671,000 equipment trust issue. Last week in a supplementary decision ICC let the Seaboard finance the other 10%. ICCommissioner Claude R. Porter dissented on the grounds that such a policy would impair the market for equipment trusts...
Every time Powel Crosley Jr. gets sidetracked, he builds the side line into a main line. Having built five main lines, he appeared last week about ready to shunt into a sixth...
...Crosley became interested in iceboxes. Now Crosley Refrigerators are turned out on an assembly belt at a rate of nearly 2,000 a day. An old baseball fan, Mr. Crosley had long been disturbed by the Cincinnati Reds consistently losing money and games. So in 1934 he bought Line No. 5. He has since carried the Reds out of the red and into the first division of the National League...