Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scientific Exhibits were unusually informative. Putting them up cost the A M. A. $50,000. Notable were the fresh pathological exhibit which looked and smelled like a tidy butcher shop; the exhibit on fractures with demonstrations of their proper setting and immobilizing with plaster of paris bandages or splints; the exhibit on varicose veins with local patients getting their swollen veins plugged by a solution of glucose and salt. A couple of pet Belgian hares lay comfortably tied in cradles so that an ear of each could be held under a microscope. In the lightly clamped ear was a tiny...
...days they stopped being surprised at such oddities as a letter in a crate so it would attract attention, letters in little known foreign languages, answers sent in on phonograph records, sometimes set to music, answers in fancy leather volumes, others engraved on metal, some cast in plaster, one wrapped around a baby's shoe. Many contestants sent in pictures of themselves, many appealed for aid. Not immune to the deluge was E. I. duPont deNemours & Co., maker of cellophane. So many people wrote for a description of cellophane that duPont had to print a special booklet...
Herbert George Wells, who has ideas on almost every conceivable subject, expressed himself on the future of architecture last week. After walking with the officials of the Royal Institute of British Architects around an exhibition hall full of paper projects and little plaster models. he addressed the R. I. B. A.'s at dinner...
...Campo de Marte mopped their brows and wondered idly at the exuberance with which the Managuan oxcart drivers were shouting, brandishing their goads, yelling insults at honking motorists this particular morning. (A native rumor of "Earthquake weather" had gone the rounds.) Downtown, women and children crowded through the plaster arches and narrow corridors of Managua's covered market to do their Holy Week shopping. At the old dirty-white adobe National Penitentiary Lieut.-Commander Hugo F. A. Baske, U. S. naval doctor, and Quartermaster's Clerk James F. Dickey paused to exchange a word with the acting warden...
...talking picture. Like many of the modern critics of the legitimate stage, Mr. Nathan chooses to turn up his nose and snort rather than pay any attention to the potentialities peculiar to the screen. He writes, "What the phonograph is to the opera, the lithograph to painting, the plaster of paris cast to sculpture and a doll's house to architecture, the talkie will ever continue to be to the drama." The chief, and only explicable objection he has to the passion flowers of Hollywood is that he prophesied a dozen years ago that they would wither...