Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan Dr. Herbert E. Ives and Dr. Frank Gray of the Bell Telephone Laboratories operated a machine which directly broadcasts vast outdoor scenes a fair distance from their lens. Heretofore only small studio scenes could be transmitted...
Looming over the 9,000-acre campus of Leland Stanford Junior University, on the side of San Juan Hill, is a grey pile of masonry suggestive of an administration building and at the same time, with its terraced roofs for outdoor living, reminiscent of the communal dwellings that the Zuñi Indians used to build. No lawn and scant shrubbery relieve the austere approach. Within, all is spacious and gracious, the solidly furnished home of the family of a man of large affairs. Here lives Nominee Hoover. Hither he was returning last week to await formal notification...
...possibility. . . . My father will come from his home in Reading, Pa., to attend my debut. My real name was Helen Howard, you know. Mother died some years ago. . . . My life reads just like the lives of Mary Lewis and Grace Moore. I do not cook. I am not an outdoor girl. Doesn't that sound banal...
...telegram to the directors of the Wildwood Club, saying: "Fortunate indeed is the golf course which can claim the honor of a great bird that can outbid the game in interest. Millions of Americans have never seen a fish hawk. In the interest of all these and all outdoor lovers, including those who fill your course, spare this bird, spare its nest...
Gradually, in the U. S., outdoor music has come to have its proper share of attention, from philanthropists, from able musicians, from audiences. For example: In Manhattan, there are two important outdoor organizations. One is the Goldman Band which plays songs and marches, operatic arias and favorite symphonies in Central Park, or on the campus of New York University. These concerts cost nothing to hear. Sponsored by the Guggenheims (Mr. & Mrs. Daniel and Mr. & Mrs. Murray), they are conducted by Edwin Franko Goldman, who, ever since the concerts began eleven years ago, has never missed a performance. For denizens...