Word: remodelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sacrifices to the squat, pudgy object which stares back blankly out of its glassy eye. It was supposed to reunite the American family, revitalize the entertainment business, succor the optical industry. For these boons, people were quite willing, when the set took up residence, to shift their furniture and remodel their draperies to give it a fit setting. And they suffered through telecrane (a stiffness of the muscles of the neck) and telesquint (an eye disorder) with hardly a grumble. But the limits of silent suffering have been reached. For television has changed the private habits of Toledo...
Over the next several years, Taylor hopes to remodel the entire museum, including a new main entrance and Escalators to reduce "museum fatigue." He has plans to meld his eleven departments into five-Ancient Art, Oriental Art, Picture Galleries, European Decorative Arts, American Art. He has experimented with TV broadcasts of art in order to be ready when color TV arrives. He is even considering tiny radio headsets so people can tune in on gallery lectures without disturbing others. "The museum is one of the few places where the population can escape from the impositions of an age starved...
...this only if the College refuses to pay its own way in the school, since the move would deprive Design of a better qualified entering, class and undergraduates of a popular major. But without support by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, this is a logical step, It could remodel Design into a smaller, advanced graduate department, staffed by leading professors, and this is far preferable to a mediocre trade school...
Haliday and Cyrus Harvey, Jr., a Boston business man, bought the theatre from its stockholders and plan to remodel it during December...
...Kewley, president of the city's Union National Bank and Trust Co., was busily sprucing up Elgin (pop. 44,223). He offered loans up to $7,500 at 1% interest (v, the going rate of 3 to 6%) without collateral to anyone who would use the money to remodel his business property. In the first few days some 31 Elgin businessmen applied for loans, and it looked as if downtown Elgin might get a completely new look. Said Banker Kewley, whose profits on the loans will hardly cover his bookkeeping costs : "People prefer to shop in an attractive store...