Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nylandska Jaktklubben (Royal Finnish Yacht Club) put up a golden nautilus shell, no larger than a lady's hand, to stimulate international competition at six-meter yacht racing, an old Scandinavian specialty. No longer than it took them to say smorgasbord, rich U. S. yachtsmen began to build six-meter boats (almost one-fourth the length of America's Cup yachts), found them fun to maneuver and comparatively inexpensive to maintain (about $3,000 a year in addition to some $8,000 initial outlay). Within four years there were enough good six-meter sailors...
...Children are sensitive to order. They want things in their right places, and in the same place all the time. They should be allowed to put things away and have the security of knowing they will find them where they were put...
While art shows to East and West of it volleyed and thundered in and around both World's Fairs, Chicago's Art Institute last week rummaged around and quietly put on nine first-rate shows of its own. The best show: 46 of its 329 lithographs by the late great French Artist Odilon Redon. The Art Institute's collection of Redon prints, purchased from the artist's widow when Redon prices were low, is the world's best: it includes all of the first impressions...
...bred in a big Manhattan house, son of an English-born international banker, Henry went through the regular paces of an idle and talented young man. He tried his hand at Wall Street and at playwriting, married, divorced and remarried, turned to the expensive indoor sport of sculpture. He put on seven shows, drew from the puzzled critics only such faint praise as "decadent, exotic, bizarre, sensational." In 1914 Sculptor Clews left Manhattan with silent dignity for Paris, the haven of Bohemian expatriates...
Believing that 50% of young people are intellectually unprepared for marriage, 20% financially unready, Father Roy put his Jocist candidates through exhaustive preparation, weeded them from 400 to 105 couples. The chosen ones he sent to lectures, both in mixed and segregated groups, on the medical, economic, social and ethical aspects of marriage. After the weddings, Father Roy hoped that many of the couples would postpone honeymooning for three months, rather than get acquainted in a hotel room. Average age of the men-all of them employed at around $25 a week-was 26, of the women, who were...