Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they conscious of inconsistency? Ten hears is a brief period in which to forget emotions so fierce as those which the World War produced. And yet they are forgotten. Mr. and Mrs. Smith would simply not believe you if you repeated to them from memory what they were saying about war ten years ago. Yet if you could somehow reverse the progress of time the Mr. Smith of 1917, should he hear the Mr. Smith of 1927, would pronounce the latter a traitor and a coward...
Basins. A sort of dry-reservoir idea is proposed in a system of basins-stretches of lowlands bordering the river and surrounded by levees. These basins would be dry land in normal times, at flood period an opening would be made in the levees and the basin flooded, thus taking up some of the overflow. These basins could be owned by the Government and rented out for private farming with the understanding that they would have to be inundated in flood time...
...Louis, Mo., last January, Mr. Kelly roosted for the record period of seven days and one hour -much of the time amid chill, sleet and snow. The experience thus gained caused him to make elaborate preparations before climbing aloft last week...
...actual, plans for the new Fogg Museum matured over a period of ten years. It is primarily a combination of a teaching museum with an actual museum. It is designed to meet the varying and exacting requirements of classroom, gallery, library, laboratory, studio, print room, and museum. Important as the exterior of the new Fogg is, it is the interior which makes it one of the most remarkable and exemplary places of museum architecture in America. The pivot and center of the building is a great court bordered on three sides by arcades and on the fourth by a grill...
There appear side-lights on family life and every-day occurence like "Bashan and I", (Henry Holt and Co.) a dog story. But not until 1925 was there definite proof that Thomas Mann had entered into the didactic and reflective period of his life. "The Enchanted Mountain" has nothing to do anymore with actions and happenings of which Buddenbrooks are as full as an old chronicle. It is purely experience of the soul, action-or not even that,-reflection of the mind. Seven years, spent in a sanitarium in the Swiss Mountains-what can you expect of such an absurd...