Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...date set for the opening of the first exhibition, which is to last a month, is Friday, February 15. To exhibit will be the real purpose of the Society, if subscriptions can be obtained to total $6000. However, objects loaned by dealers will be on sale or obtainable through orders. So far, this total of contributions has not quite been reached, but confidence was expressed on the part of the executives that it would be soon. Many New York and Boston art patrons have supported the work generously while a general interest in the movement is evident in art circles...
...radio reception during the last two months of 1928 has shown considerable improvement. It may be mentioned that the high degree of static due to thunder storms in the summer months results in the fact that the average radio listener will decrease the sensitivity of his set in summer to lesson these disturbances with the necessary accompaniment of low audible intensity of distant stations. Hence the general impression of a low intensity accompanying warm weather...
...days of brilliant sunshine during the Hillary Term at Lent gladden the winter-worn spirits of Oxford freshmen, and for the first time the promise of beauty seems near to realization. For it is in Trinity Term that Oxford blooms with unbelievable richness. She is most easily appreciated then set in the rich green of meadows and fields by two beautiful rivers, now covered with punts and canoes; old trees line the roads and walks, the air is sweet and clear and fresh, and the Colleges sparkle in the sunshine. It is now that one knows the High...
...Boiling Field, Washington, last week. While a trimotored Fokker army transport flew at 80 m. p. h., a light refueling plane hovered above her and pumped down gasoline and oil through hoses, dropped food with a rope. The preliminary test worked. So the Fokker and a refueling plane set out for Los Angeles where the break-down tests of men or motors will take place. The name of the Fokker is whimsically Question Mark...
...altogether desert superstition for science: among the 725 prescriptions for 243 diseases listed in his Primitive Physick: or, An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases is the remedy for "a consumption"-"take a cow-heel from the Tripe-house ready drest . . . two ounces of Isinglass . . . Sugar-candy ... set them in the oven after the bread is drawn . . . let the Patient live on this...