Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sponsored by the American Civilization Plan and the Graduate School of Design, his other lectures will be on Thursday, November 9; Tuesday, November 14; Thursday, November 16; Tuesday, November 21, and Thursday, November 23. Mumford will also conduct several seminars open to students in the Graduate School of Design and the undergraduate Department of Architectural Sciences...
...London, seven of 32 West End theatres are open again, besides those in the suburbs. The West End is still largely restricted to matinees, but managers are seeking the Home Office's permission to stagger the curtain time of evening performances, thus avoid any blackout congestion. Managers are also seeking permission to give Sunday shows. In peacetime, Sunday shows would be howled down by Sabbatarian diehards, but England is least conservative when at war: During World War I she pushed through woman suffrage and daylight saving...
...long as he kept the nature of his lethal ray secret, it was hard for skeptical scientists to prove that Mr. Longoria was talking big through his hat. But last week he laid himself wide open by announcing: "The ray lies in one of the unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the X-ray." This was a bit too specific. Professor Arthur Holly Compton, the University of Chicago's famed radiation authority, stated that there are no unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the Xray...
...Steel production rose from 88.6% to 90.3%. The Great Lakes division of efficient, profitable National Steel (which has a tonnage production monopoly in Detroit) had to close one of its 16 open-hearth steel ingot furnaces for too long deferred repairs. New York's Journal of Commerce commented sagely: ". . . May be a forerunner of a general condition in the industry...
...portion of the American Civilization Plan which is open to the general public consists this fall of a series of lectures on the general topic of "Backgrounds of American Architecture" by Lewis Mumford