Word: oak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seismologist Oak Ridge Observatory Harvard, Mass...
...incensed" at the position of the left hand of Titian's Venus? All I can see in the left hand of the picture of Titian's Venus is a bunch of leaves-I can't see anything to become incensed over unless the leaves are poison oak...
...great deal of money after the War selling medical supplies to the Soviets. Armand Hammer manufactured lead pencils in Moscow, traded U. S. wheat for furs and caviar, carried on a thriving business in Russia until 1930. Three years later, in Manhattan, he began buying air-dried white oak Russian staves for U. S. beer barrels. Because it is almost impossible to get actual money out of Russia, Concessionaire Hammer made an arrangement with the Soviet authorities to take his profits out of the country in antiques, jewels, paintings, furniture, embroideries. In his Manhattan galleries he makes his final conversion...
...William Jennings Bryan chose the rostrum of old Madison Square Garden to launch his first Presidential campaign in 1896. Such job-seekers as Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt have counted New York the climax of their speaking tours. Similarly Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of Royal Oak, Mich., after opening the membership drive for his National Union for Social Justice before an apathetic audience in Detroit, followed by a triumph in Cleveland, last week put himself to the critical test in Manhattan...
This, the eighth day of the auction, marked the last and saddest chapter in the Mauretania's career. Her furniture and paneling of oak, mahogany and walnut, in French, Italian and 18th Century English styles, were disposed of. Now up for sale were such sentimental souvenirs as lifeboats, lifebelts, steering wheel and her name itself. Lifeboats brought $31 to $101 each, the steering wheel $150. The scramble for lifebelts bearing the ship's name puffed the price to $42 each. The siren, which blared the Mauretania's way into port for 22 years as speed champion...