Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mohammedan theory that "all are equal before Allah in prayer," the World's Richest Man prostrated himself with his subjects at the Great Mosque and everyone prayed. Poems were recited and the venerable Hindu Premier read an address hailing his Mohammedan Monarch as "today the sole relic of Mogul greatness in India...
...anxieties of how much in the way cotton piece goods is imported from Japan rather than England, modernization of the Hyderabad State Railways and the still somewhat novel issues raised by electricity. The words on a modernistic building of which Hyderabad is proud are not in native characters but read "POWER STATION" (see cut, above), and the Nizam has promised communal radio sets to every town and village...
Vitya Vronsky & Victors Babin have no secrets. Unlike most duo-pianists they do not say that spiritual accord helps them play together. Duo-pianists may have clashing temperaments and different-shaped hands. If they read musical phrases in the same way, they will play them properly...
...most of the other artists under the protective wing of her dealer husband, but to Miss O'Keeffe's embarrassment, every time a showing of her paintings is held, it attracts half the amateur theosophists, swamis, faith healers and founders of new cults in Manhattan, anxious to read hidden meanings into her brilliantly colored, smoothly painted studies of skulls, feathers, roses, bones, morning glories and strange black crosses. In the new paintings exhibited last week, Artist O'Keeffe had given up crosses for turkey feathers, but the skill and the brilliant color are as obvious as ever...
...American Co. with assets of $891,000,000, American Water Works & Electric Co. with $434,000,000-notified their stockholders that it would be in their best interests to withdraw all litigation against the Utility Act and to register with SEC forthwith. Beaming at this unexpected pleasure. Chairman Landis read to newshawks a letter of congratulation he had written North American's President James F. Fogarty, acknowledging the utilities' right to challenge any SEC action once they were registered. As he finished, in strode grey old Henry Hobart Porter, elder brother of National Distillers' Seton Porter...