Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intellect, the art of children is necessarily primitive, sometimes amusing. To an adult who looks on art as a floodgate for the imagination, child art has lately become a fascinating affair. Muddlers who hold either view as occasion in Manhattan demands found occasion last week to hold the second. On the walls of the big mezzanine galleries of Rockefeller Center's International Building were posted more than 1,000 crayon, tempera and water color drawings by children in 530 U. S. and Canadian schools, an exhibition sponsored by the public-school art directors of 30 cities...
Expanding Universe? The question of constants is closely bound up with the magnificent conception of the Expanding Universe. Half way out to the fringes of the visible universe, the nebulae or star-galaxies appear to be rushing away from Earth at speeds up to 25,000 miles per second. The light from these nebulae is shifted toward the red end of the spectrum and ordinarily, such a shift indicates receding velocity. But the speeds are so big that many astronomers consider the Expanding Universe may be an illusion, have sought some other cause for the redshift in the spectrum...
William's son, William Armiger Scripps, publisher of the London Daily Sun, visited but never settled in the U. S. But William Armiger's son, James Mogg Scripps, came to the U. S. in 1844. By his second marriage James Mogg was the father of James E. Scripps who founded the Detroit News and whose family still rules the Detroit News and the Booth chain of newspapers in Michigan...
Death ended his control of more daily newspapers than any other man in the U. S. (Scripps-Howard chain of 24 dailies*), the second largest press association (United Press), two of the greatest newspaper syndicates (United Feature and N.E.A.), one of the leading news picture services (Acme), and three minor radio stations-a journalistic kingdom worth well over...
...cinema orchestras. A diligent student, he spent his spare time plowing through courses at the Frankfurt Conservatory, studying violin, viola and composition. In 1915 he became head violinist of the Frankfurt Opera House, rose to the post of conductor. Among German composers his pre-Hitler reputation was second only to that of aging Richard Strauss...