Word: strings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hunt a job. Though modest, soft-spoken Douglas Leigh hoped to work for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. he was unsuccessful, instead landed a job with General Outdoor Advertising Co., Inc., for which in three years' time he became a top-notch salesman. But dis gruntled by a long string of Depression salary cuts, he quit the job in 1933, sold his old Ford for $150 and used the money to start a business of his own. In Times Square last week-a little over five years later-he snapped a switch to light his latest advertising creation, a mammoth...
...luncheon was a lately acquired hilltop on Franklin Roosevelt's own land, adjacent to his mother's. Here, he revealed, he is going to have something he has long wanted: his "dream house." To newshawks he showed its shape, outlined in the woods with stakes and string. Contracts were let last week to Adams, Faber Co. of Montclair, N. J. Architects: Franklin Roosevelt and Arthur Tombs of Manhattan and Atlanta (who laid out Georgia Warm Springs Foundation). Cost: $15,000. Name: "Dutchess Hill." Style: Dutch colonial. Material: native stone (from old fences). Rooms: five (living-dining room...
...beaten Yale twice before, had paced only one losing race in two years and is generally recognized as one of the greatest strokes in the history of U. S. rowing. Yale had only two seasoned oarsmen in its boat, had changed its boating many times, had a less imposing string of victories: over Columbia, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Princeton, Syracuse...
...QUARTET No. 6 IN F MAJOR (Roth String Quartet; Columbia: 6 sides). Czech-born Dvořák's U. S.-folk-music-inspired quartet well played by one of today's ranking chamber music ensembles...
...high voltage transformer an electric spark is passed from the bob to the wax, makes a mark showing the amount of rotation every hour-or oftener if desired for demonstration purposes. To start the pendulum going, without torque, it is held at one end of its arc by a string which is then burned through...