Word: plumbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blue (2.30) Cox, Tobey; Stroke, Cummin; 7, Schloss; 6, Lee; 5, Mallinckrodt; 4, Angel; 3, Hoyt; 2, Thayer; Bow, Plumb...
...such as 18th Century, Empire, Directoire; 3) the neoclassic; 4) the Colonial; 5) the modernistic. Standard Sanitary emphasizes the neoclassic; Crane the Renaissance; Kohler the "Metropolitan," a modernistic style which, according to an exposition salesman, "means as much as Standard's neo-classic." But all three master plumbers plumb in all periods...
...move the spire. Slender towers present little difficult since they expose a more or less rounded figure to the wind which meets more resistance in square buildings. Contrary to popular opinion the sway of even the tallest modern buildings does not exceed an inch. Experiments, in which a plumb line was dropped from the tallest elevator shaft in the Woolworth Building during one of the severest wind storms that have visited New York City this winter, revealed a away of only 5-8 of an inch...
...industry has been sunk deeper by Depression than transatlantic shipping. Plumb lines measuring the depth: a 30% to 50% decrease this year in American tourist traffic; a corresponding $250,000,000 drop in European tourist receipts. Last week, at the insistence of the Britishers, 18 major transatlantic lines met in Paris to take action...
...flat, the lowest tone in music that is not just a grunt, is sounded in orchestras by the contrabassoon or the contrabass tuba. Beethoven used the big woodwind in his Ninth Symphony. Haydn in his Creation, Brahms in his First Symphony. Wagner used the mighty mouthed tuba to plumb the murky depths of his Niebelungen Ring...