Word: restless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...research professor in Harvard's department of architecture, of which Walter Gropius is chairman, Breuer is, like Gropius, a creator of the international school of architecture. And like most internationalists, he is restless, widely traveled, had roamed over Europe, settled in England, when he packed up to follow Gropius to Harvard last year. Breuer's architectural Odyssey began when he graduated from the gymnasium at Pecs, Hungary, in 1920. Then 18, the son of a middle-class doctor, he streaked for Vienna, heard about the newly established Bauhaus, moved to Germany and then Paris, where his furniture designs...
When William Randolph Hearst discontinued his unprofitable Rochester Journal last year, 400 men and women lost their jobs on 24 hours' notice, the Rochester newspaper field was left to the morning Democrat and Chronicle and the evening Times-Union, both owned by restless Roosevelt-Baiter Frank Ernest Gannett. The homeless Hearstlings decided that they and Rochester could use an independent daily. This week, after a year's hunt for financial backers, the first issue of the Rochester Evening News, edited by Roosevelt-Backer David Edwin Kessler, appeared on the streets...
...Bloomingdale's a crowd of more than 500 people herded into line caught brief glimpses of television. Bored and restless, they departed after viewing just one set. The sets may be ordered with delivery expected in August or later...
...Donahey, foregathered in the Senate's cavernous marble caucus room. Senator Donahey called Arthur Morgan to present his complaints first. The gaunt, eagle-faced old hydraulic engineer carried to the stand a fat bale of mimeographed matter. As he read, his big audience became successively quiet, bored, restless. For in low, mumbling tones he continued reading, uninterrupted, for five and three-quarter hours...
...Amoy, in South China. While the capture of Amoy might mean that the Japanese were preparing for a push in South China to cut off Chiang Kai-shek's munitions route, most observers believed that Japan wanted an easy victory to announce at home and that the restless, jealous Japanese Navy wanted a little glory for itself...