Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a loud explosion and a blinding flash-they were made for 110 volts and the palace circuit carried 220 volts. The apologetic photographers explained that something had gone wrong. The King amiably agreed to pose again provided there would not be another such explosion. He left the room and returned in ten minutes after adjustments had been made. Another three minutes posing, better behaved flash bulbs and the picture which TIME selected for its cover was taken...
...paunchy and kindly, with thick grey hair falling over his forehead and a droopy grey mustache, Edward Thorndike (affectionately called "The Big Chief" by his associates) still works 70 hours a week. "We have a factory here for finding the truth," he says. It is a highceilinged, barnlike room in a remote corner of Teachers College, with a little office in the back where Dr. Thorndike sits in a high-backed chair at a rolltop desk. The factory is crammed to the ceiling with manila-wrapped bundles containing tests and data. Dr. Thorndike knows what is in every last...
...years travelers who went to bed on trains either slept behind the green curtains of standard Pullman berths or paid a premium to use walled compartments, drawing rooms or bedrooms. Last year Pullman Co. built two experimental sleepers, named them Progress and Advance (renamed California and Bear Flag), loaned them to various railroads in the East and West for tryouts. Progress was a crack modern observation car; Advance a de luxe double-decker with nine rooms "down stairs" and seven on the upper level reached by individual stairs. This spring another experimental car, the Roomette, was submitted...
...sportsman, a connoisseur of literature, art and tobacco. A dinner jacket suit, from which the painter has removed himself, sits upright in a chair beside a small round table, on which there are a signet ring, a pipe and a leather-bound book. Behind the chair, where the room's blue-green walls meet, stand three polo mallets; near them hangs the painting of an Italianate nude...
...Blackfriars neighborhood, for the fagade is of dull Portland stone and weathered hand-made tawny-brown bricks, each chosen with fond care and joined, as the Times said, with "a sympathetic mortar." Lest the 152-year-old Times lose some of its hoary atmosphere, a new rubber-floored proofreading room was paneled in veneer made from piles of the old Waterloo bridge...