Word: stem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Worcester Art Museum, designed by William T. Aldrich of Boston. Its exterior is in the familiar Institutional Renaissance, but the interior, adapted largely from the new Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, is one of the most efficient museum buildings in the country. As in the Fogg, galleries stem from a central Palladian arcaded courtyard...
...were not playing the sterling brand of hockey that they have sprung on several occasions earlier in the season. deGive was not in the best of form and Torouto seemed to be able to surround and block off the Crimson sextet at will. Fifteen Harvard spares went in to stem the tide but could not stand the pace. Baldwin saved the team from a white-wash by an unassisted score two minutes before the close of the game. Both Princeton and Yale have succumbed...
...House was an awful moment for the U. S. Drys, Consolidated. To them it marked the end of an era during which their power over Congress and the country had been practically supreme. The great dam they had built against the "liquor traffic" had cracked, they were helpless to stem the ensuing flood. Their six-vote victory over Repeal in a nominally Dry House was a portent of defeat in the coming Wet one. The Wets, on top for the first time as a result of the election, did not exult too loudly. Responsibility was sobering even the most rampant...
...months President Hoover and James Clawson Roop, his budget director, had been whittling and pruning at Federal expenses in an unsuccessful effort to level up outgo and income without resorting to new taxation. Director Roop, a large, round-faced man through whose tight lips pass nothing but a pipe stem, practices none of the noisy drama of the first occupant of his office (Charles Gates Dawes) or the publicized penny-pinching of the second (the late Herbert Mayhew Lord). Few U. S. officials see their President more often or more easily than Mr. Roop. Yet, utterly modest...
...playing on the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th overtones of the pipe, and the melody was being produced by the rapid fluctuations of wind-pressure." The mystery and his solution make Sir Richard "wonder whether such an effect can ever have occurred in Nature-a broken bamboo stem, for example, partially obstructed at its windward end, and so shielded by vegetation, soil, etc., as to produce a pressure difference between its open ends? The effect of elaborate melodies thus produced without human intervention would be highly magical and suggestive...