Word: looke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking the activities in order, let us first look at the sports situation. All Freshmen are required to exercise three times a week, and they must do something organized and something upon which there is a check made. Wrestling with your roommate, for example, is exercise all right, but it just won't do for the check...
...planned for the top of St. Francis' head had been removed. San Franciscans who consider Sculptor Bufano's stainless steel and granite figure of Sun Yat-sen the finest statue in the city (TIME, Nov. 22, 1937) were wondering last week what this symmetrical mass will look like when 156 ft. high (five feet higher than the Statue of Liberty) and mounted on a 35-ft. base. Said Sculptor Bufano...
...when the Galerie de Beaune displayed 18 of his new works. Critics found them fully abstract, only remotely Freudian, with more depth and movement than most abstract paintings. This was because Artist Ferren has the .inventiveness to paint curving forms in space which are as interesting and satisfactory to look at as, say, a page of designs for ships' propellers, done in color...
Hugo Loeser, a 57-year-old liquor importer from Chicago, went sightseeing in London's City (financial district) last week. Coming upon what he took to be a busy broker's office, he stepped in to have a look at stock quotations. The hubbub of voices steadily increased, so did shouts of "1401!" Puzzled and amused by this chant. Mr. Loeser suddenly noticed that I he was surrounded. Someone jostled him. His hat was knocked off. Next thing he knew he was in the street, straightening his rumpled clothes, looking up into the red face of a bobby...
...first-class tennis with imaginary balls.'' But it saved Author Halsey from feeling inferior. English weather, about which most conversation revolved, made her think "I was going to grow a coating of moss on the north side." but she liked the green countryside. She ridiculed the diminutive look of England (''the locomotives are only about thirty-four inches around the bust"), but came to like the homey atmosphere it gave. Oppressed by ''that death-in-life which the Britons . . . like to call English reserve," she nevertheless liked its complement, "the cream-of-mushroom-soup...