Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawing and modeling by children and untrained adults form a display now at the Germanic Museum, Exhibited to illustrate the normal development of creative imagination, the display includes the work of children from the ages 5 to 18, who have been allowed to paint or model without interference or special teaching...
...Clothing distributed to the Nazi poor is mostly of artificial textiles, the standardized garments being made in six sizes, misfits exchangeable, alterations and special fitting not attempted by the State...
...assigned a separate letter, according to the nomenclature suggested by Casimir Funk, a Polish biochemist who in 1911 invented the word vitamin to describe these food elements essential to good health. But there are not enough letters in the English alphabet to go around. In addition to that difficulty, special students of vitamins are so bewildered by the mounting mass of facts about vitamins, that Professor Clive Maine McCay of Cornell put his tongue in his cheek and wrote for last week's Science...
...newspaper comment which characterized the Literary Digest of the late '20s when it had 1,400,000 circulation. Beginning Nov. 13 the Literary Digest's, cover will appear bedecked in action color photographs. Its interior will contain: 1) a review of the week's news, 2) special articles and big-name features, 3) something called "Reading around the world." Says Boss Havell: "Presidential polls...
...Buffalo. N. Y., Big Frank, elephant at the city zoo, was given a birthday party: with one swing of his trunk he engulfed a frosted birthday cake, packed it down with 50 Ibs. of hay. carrots, beets, as a special postprandial treat was permitted to chew