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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right after Louis had beaten Welsh Tommy Farr in his first defense of his world's heavyweight championship. By the time Joe reached Hollywood, Producer Golder had collected a dusky crew of professionals from downtown Los Angeles, planned an all-Negro story that would more or less parallel the Brown Bomber's shuffling clamber to fame. Taking on a wonderful waxworks-plus-minstrel-show quality from its principal player, Spirit of Youth will certainly not be duplicated for many a moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 31, 1938 | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...week, however, both President Conant and Dean Hudunt, of the Graduate School of Design, saw fit to recapitulate their activities of the past year. They both had a lot to say on several subjects, but it is most interesting to note that on one point their thought is closely parallel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DESIGN FOR BUILDING A TRIPLICATE | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...implication, it would now appear that any Senior, tendered a job by some well meaning friend, should consult his doctor--his vocational doctor--to make sure that the job available to him is not poisonous--at least for him. Actually we cannot draw this parallel quite so far, for the reason that there are no vocational experts qualified to issue pills of wisdom which will decide for all patients what course they ought to steer...

Author: By Donald H. Moyer, OF THE ALUMNI PLACEMENT OFFICE | Title: Placement Office Plays Vocational Doctor to Seniors | 1/21/1938 | See Source »

About four miles from Spring Green, Wis., the hills splay into two soft ranges to let a fast stream flow toward the Wisconsin River. Facing southwest over this valley a big, long house folds around the summit of one hill, its roof lines parallel to the line of ridges, its masonry the same red-yellow sandstone that crops out in ledges along the stream. Under snow the house melts easily into the landscape. Its name is Taliesin, a Welsh word meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Usonian Architect | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...tall, say. ... I broadened the mass out all I possibly could, brought it down into spaciousness. ... I was working toward the elimination of the wall as a wall to reach the function of a screen, as a means of opening up space. . . . The planes of the building parallel to the ground were all stressed-to grip the whole to Earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Usonian Architect | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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