Word: simplest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water. But no matter how little glycerine they used it would appear later in small beads on the surface of the plaster. Then they tried butyl alcohol (butanol) with the same ingredients. This worked, but made the plaster surface too soft to work on. The final formula was the simplest: equal parts of butanol and water. Muralist Rivera, pleased as Punch, confirmed their claim that spraying walls with this preparation every three or four hours enables a painter to work twice as long on one section or to apply plaster to twice as large an area of wall...
...purpose of getting back eight guns confiscated from the first prisoners. After a two-day attack the Fort ran up a white flag, surrendered the guns. In addition Commandant Grant agreed to evacuate the Fort altogether, acting on orders from General Gage, who considered it was the simplest...
More than two hundred photographs by Miss Esther Born, illustrating contemporary Mexican architecture, will be on exhibit in Hunt Hall Daily until June 27 from 9 o'clock to 5. These views made for the Architectural Record, include examples of nearly every important type of secular building, from the simplest workers' house and private dwellings to large office buildings, hospitals, markets, warehouses, schools, factories, airports, and monuments...
...Mexican exhibit, at Hunt Hall, includes over two hundred photographs illustrating this nation's modern "renaissance" of building design in the construction of every important type of building from the simplest workers' houses and private dwellings to large office buildings, hospitals, markets, warehouses, schools, factories, airports...
Reprinted as two of his five chapters are his argument of 1934 and a later speech explaining its genesis. Inspired by the over-complexity of professional economists on the subject of the business cycle, the original Dawes plan was to reduce the last three big depressions to their simplest terms, draw parallels for the current guidance of businessmen. Putting the months of the stockmarket crashes of 1873, 1893 and 1929 on one baseline, he superimposed charts of durable goods activity for the following ten-year periods. In each of the earlier depressions pig iron production & prices began to recover exactly...