Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calling in Tokyo correspondents, Mr. Takahashi revealed that his Finance Ministry was rushing into shape a bill to make ''Roosevelt money" out of the yen-i.e. to devalue it and presumably pounce on the profit to be had by seizing gold held by Japanese citizens and banks...
...advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity." But his assumption that "we can all agree that these admirable words still describe our aims" is an entirely gratuitous one. These may be the aims of Harvard University, but they are not the aims of Harvard College. Men shape institutions in their own image and it is clear that Mr. Conant envisions the Harvard of the future as a paradise for those rare creative scholars of whom he is one. It is a noble aim, but if Harvard is to remain a college as well as a university it cannot...
Miro. At one of the Museum of Modern Art's first exhibitions three years ago people stopped in front of a small black canvas entitled "Dog Barking at the Moon." On the right, in strange iridescent colors, was something that might be a dog. Above it was another shape that might be a moon. On the left there was definitely a ladder, shooting up into infinity. As a work of art it only annoyed most people. Yet last summer that same canvas, now the proud possession of an eminent Union Club member, Mr. Albert Eugene Gallatin, was listed...
Joan Miro, 40, was born in Barcelona, studied painting in his native city. That Artist Miro should get a better sense of shape and volume in his painting, his instructor made him draw from objects that he could only touch, blindfolded. About 15 years ago Joan Miro first appeared in the Paris art world, and in 1925 headed the most obscure group of modernists, the Surrealists. His early canvases were obscure enough, strange blobs of color against neutral backgrounds cut across by careening black lines...
Hupmobile approached the egg-shape of pure aerodynamics more closely than any other make at the show except Chrysler and De Soto. But its broad front and smooth taper to the rear was achieved without scrapping all points of traditional design...