Word: pour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...code (which practically doubled the eight foot-candle minimum recommended by the same groups in 1932) produced more heat than light. For to pour 15 foot-candles on every pupil's desk would cost U. S. schools untold millions ($1,000,000 a year in New York City alone). Even before the code was issued, the National Council on Schoolhouse Construction, which was represented on a committee of 15 groups collaborating in the study, had adopted a resolution in convention withholding approval of the 15 foot-candle minimum until "scientific" tests had been made. A member of the committee...
Splash. Soon presses in Rome, Paris, London and Manhattan will pour out selections from D'Annunzio's "thousands of love letters," for his will characteristically provides that, now he is dead, they are to be published at once to make the biggest possible splash...
Locked up in the Tombs, with 45th Street still in his blood, Chalmers wrote Taken from Life. Last month, at Brooklyn's Academy of Music, it had its premiere. When guns refused to go off, bottles refused to pour, and the melodrama became increasingly witless, the audience started to snicker and laugh. The play dragged on so long that its last six scenes had to be cut because the stagehands wanted to go home. At Sing Sing, where going home is more of a problem, the audience was far more patient and sympathetic, hated to have to stop...
...pour upon a censure only true...
Harvard men from five mid-western states will pour into Cincinnati next Tuesday for the first Regional Harvard Club meeting, at which President Conant will be the guest of honor...