Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took hope for the election April 4. Reason: they had buried their worst local liability, clownish three-time Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who in an attempted comeback at 70, complete with sombrero, coonskin coat, open Cadillac but with no new tricks, polled only 62,000 votes. The rest of the Republican vote went to establish a fresher, more attractive party face, that of Lawyer Dwight Herbert ("Pete") Green...
...convention delegates was the supposed author of this spoofery, tousle-haired Harold Raymond Wayne Benjamin, Ph.D., director of the College of Education of University of Colorado, onetime cowboy, fisherman, soldier, who can roll two cigarets at once. Dr. Benjamin admitted writing a foreword to the book, of the rest would say only that "It was not written by [Columbia University President] Nicholas Murray Butler...
From more than 100 designs submitted for William and Mary's hypothetical theatre, the judges unanimously chose that of three very young men: Ralph Rapson, 22, Frederic James, 23, and Erro Saarinen, 28, of Cranbrook Academy, Michigan. Their theatre was planned to rest on the sloping bank of a small lake, with a minimum of excavation-a balanced set of simple building-masses rimmed by open terraces. The interior gracefully conformed to requirements with: 1) a stage adaptable to every kind of entertainment, 2) ample dressing and property rooms, 3) wide aisles and plenty of leg room, 4) full...
...Government may demand up to 20% in inheritance taxes and creditors can no longer be stalled. Even more, it is a race against dwindling confidence. Judge Shearn has abandoned a large part of the Hearst empire, and well he knows how ephemeral is the faith that holds the rest of it together. To restore confidence in a name that for half a century has stood for the exploitation of human gullibility to gratify one man's caprice is a job to make anyone's hair fall out. Judge Shearn was bald when he took...
Because of the labor controversy last year, Harvard greatly improved the recreation rooms, she went on. New chairs and couches were bought, and a new rest room was fixed up for the bus boys...