Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Private letters reached the U. S. last week citing incidents which helped explain this terrific casualty. Like the ostrich, the Chinese believes that if he cannot see his attacker, he is safe. When Changsha was bombed, citizens rushed under trees and dived into bushes, murmuring thanks for their safety. Best example of Chinese ARP came from Changteh, 100 miles north of Changsha. There police systematically shot every dog they could find because the city's elders decided that their barking attracted Japanese bombing planes...
...Pernessin Raymond, the architect demonstrated his principle: "nothing wasted, nothing inappropriate." Most interesting to readers and exhibition visitors were several feats in reinforced concrete: the serene and summery Tokyo Golf Club, light-looking but earthquake-and-typhoon-proof homes, the remarkable Women's Christian College in Tokyo (see cut) of precast and reinforced concrete, with everything from stained glass to concrete and wrought-iron altar made on the spot by Architect Raymond's crew of craftsmen...
...lumpy as ever were the Hartley landscapes. But his figures - first he has painted in years-included several strong studies of Nova Scotia fishermen and an extraordinary memory portrait of the late Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, "as seen at night at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 15th Street" (see cut). Its tonic virtue: that it brought to life without sentiment an imaginative artist whose seclusion and eccentricity delayed until after death his fame as one of the great 19th-Century U. S. painters...
...Maryland and were snowed in. Even when Correll's baby died last January, the show went on, the pair doing the first broadcast together, and Gosden reading all the parts at the rebroadcast few hours later. Although other radio teams are older than Amos 'n' Andy (see p. 59), when they leave NBC for CBS they will have given 5,208 performances including rebroadcasts, an unapproached radio record...
Last week, accompanied by publicity-wise Daddy Wood, two nurses and 20 faculty members, one-third of Stephens packed its bags and went off on the school's annual junket to see some of the country and a few new boys (cost per student...