Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibition of water colors by contemporary American artists is on display in the Common room of Dunster House and will be there until June 24. It is open to the public daily from 11 to 5 o'clock...
...President approved $57.577.000 of U. S. Housing Authority loan contracts for slum clearance projects in Buffalo, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus (Ohio), Allentown (Pa.), Birmingham (Ala.), Detroit. Beneficiaries: 44,000 slum dwellers. Rentals: $3.75 to $4.25 per room per month. This batch brought USHA slum clearance loans up to a total of $111,070,000 to provide for 20,833 families. Meanwhile, into its Lend-Spend bill the Senate wrote a new appropriation of $300.000,000 for Housing Administrator Nathan Straus (see below...
...week, when the twelve survivors of Round 2 were preparing to fight it out in the finals, Brussels, agog, was laying bets right & left. The twelve finalists had been moved from their lodgings to the Royal Palace in suburban Laeken. There each of them was shut in a soundproof room with a piano and a brand-new manuscript copy of an unpublished (and unknown) concerto by Belgian Composer Jean Absil, composed especially for the occasion. For seven days they sweated over this assignment, kept from contact with the outside world but allowed to walk in the Palace grounds and chat...
...Swarthmore, visitors had almost as much trouble seeing the paintings for the fogs of publicity. Two years ago, bashful James Egleson, then 29, got permission to paint an anti-war mural on the walls of a good-sized lecture room in Swarthmore College. An engineer who turned to painting when his eyes began to fail, studied under Jose Clemente Orozco, Artist-Engineer Egleson kept the lecture room locked while he worked, breeding stories that conservative graduates were trying to have the murals suppressed...
Since there are so few instructors (three) within the field and consequently a limited number of courses, there is more room for tutorial work than in the field of Geology. Concentrators pointed out Soil as one subject which was under-emphasized in the courses and is done in tutorial conferences, although at present there is no course that could stand more emphasis on it. Reading which connects the field with History or Economics can also be done under the direction of the tutors...