Word: oval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grant Wood was born in 1892 in Anamosa, Iowa, site of Iowa's best known Reformatory. His family was rigidly Quaker. His first studio was a hiding place under the red checkered table cloth of the oval dining-room table. In 1907. when he was 15, Grant Wood made a little water color of a spray of green currants of which he is extremely proud. It was painted in what he now realizes is his natural style, hard, exact, brittle. The currants were on view last week together with a number of pictures from the pink-whisker period...
Like Sohn's in principle, Davis' wings resembled a moth's rather than a bat's. Fastened to his hips by hinges, they were rigid, oval-shaped, flat, with small ailerons at the tips controlled by handgrips. No webbing was sewn between Davis' legs. Instead he had them bound together, with a small moth-like tail-wing fastened to each ankle. In compliance with Federal regulations, he wore two parachutes-one for emergency in case the other failed to open...
Last week with all the publicity that a U. S. President and two of his Cabinet can drum up, the Treasury launched its drive to distribute government bonds among private investors. In the Oval Room of the White House before floodlights and newsreel cameras Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Postmaster General Farley put on a little act which in thousands of cinemansions throughout the land shows President Roosevelt buying the first "baby bonds." They were the "salesmen"; the President the "prospect...
Eighty-five men turned out yesterday for the season's first intensive inter track practice, held on the wooden oval at Soldiers Field. With the return of all but six of the 44 runners who scored in the Yale Meet last year and the addition of many runner from last year's Freshman team, this department is well taken care of, but the weight events are rather dubious because of the loss of Dean and Healey, who accounted for 16 points in every meet last year...
President Roosevelt sat in his big armchair with his back to the windows of his oval office and beamingly told newshawks as they trooped in for their press conference that he had a lot of news for them. He told about General MacArthur's being held over as Chief of Staff, told about plans for a new local airport. Then he intimated that he had something really important...