Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instructions on throwing 30.000 miles of base lines across the U. S. S. R. to Behring Strait, where they will touch the Alaska lines. The work will be done in five years. Then the exact contour of two-thirds of the earth will be known and the suburban home owner may figure almost precisely how far his plot is from the railroad station and the North Star...
Left, By Fred G. Nixon-Nirdlinger. Philadelphia theatre-owner who was killed last month by his wife in Nice (TIME, March 23); some $725,000, one-third of the income of which goes to Mrs. Charlotte Nash Nixon-Nirdlinger, who now awaits trial for murder, the balance to their two children, a previous wife, and a secretary; the whole at last to charity...
...complete three-story affair of polished aluminum and glass, designed to take the place of the rows of jerry-built Olde Englysshe cottages for families of modest means which speckle U. S. suburbs. Designed by A. Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey, the Magic House has no excavated basement. The owner enters through the garage, climbs a staircase near the oil-burning furnace room to a duplex living room, dining room, library. The designers expect that the covered sun porch and outdoor living room will be the most popular feature of the house. They claim that the three-inch walls...
...owner of an apartment house in The Bronx last week wrote to the Department of Sanitation complaining of "conditions that exist on the side and rear of my house. ... It is ... a body of water commonly known as a swamp." He said that in the swamp subsisted "a large school of frogs. . . . The sound they make . . . is the most annoying thing I have ever heard. The few remaining tenants . . . threatened to move unless something is done about...
...Cornell curator also spoke of the excellent gathering of occasional and obituary poems which form part of the Schofield gift. He said that he had talked with the former owner of the collection, who informed him that the collection of periodicals was almost complete...