Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Almost roof-high and room-long in the Mines, Metals and Machinery Building stretches Treasure Mountain, showing open-pit mine operations aboveground, gold and copper mining along 500 feet of underground passageways. Good also: U. S. Steel's diorama of a steel-built San Francisco of 1999; a 555-lb. piano hanging from a thin steel thread...
They were designed by famed Bauhaus-founder Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. They will stand on stilts over a lake (see cut), will be modernist in style. Besides classrooms, a library, laboratories, shops, offices, the buildings will include two-room apartments for teachers, rooms for 120 students. Each student will have a private study but share a bedroom. Most unusual aspect of the plans is the buildings' compactness, for compact community life...
...agencies. His note: "Stranded! On an island in Cambridge, Mass., a college graduate-to-be in June, will work like hell for passage into port. Gold stored here with me (training in arts, sciences, business . . .). You're going ahead and I'm going your way. Have you room in the hold for a man who can prove he's worth his salt?" Soon John West began to get replies. Said one: "Altering course to pick you up." When he graduated last week, John. West had a job with a Philadelphia advertising agency...
...Broadway, Norman Anthony offered Producers Olsen & Johnson half a cent a copy for permission to use the title for a magazine.* Having little ready cash, he got a printer and a paperseller to take a chance on three issues, bought $300 worth of art, then sat down in his room in the Parkside Hotel and wrote 32 pages of gags. This week the first issue of Hellzapoppin will appear on the newsstands ("15?-But Why Buy It?"), fully justifying its subtitle of "The World's Screwiest Magazine...
Particularly designed for reference work by scholars, the library contains some six hundred volumes of keyboard music dating from about the year 1500. The complete range of organ music is covered, with the works of all major composers for the organ included. The collection is steadily growing. The new room in which it is housed is paneled in English oak. A Tintoretto painting. "The Angel Choir," was given by Mrs. Isham for the room...