Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upturned face. These enable him to read, play games and to see his meals when they are placed on a table immediately back of his head. When a page of print is laid with its top at his hair, two mirrors enable him to read precisely as though the type were directly before his eyes. A single mirror turns the type upside down for him, but like a printer he can read it that way, too, with great facility. Another new accomplishment: he speaks Chinese...
Another Academy specialty, the large historical canvas, has lived on in England while similar work in France, Austria and Germany has long gathered dust on museum and palace walls. Most popular of this type was The Founding of Australia by Algernon Talmadge (see cut). It shows Australia Explorer Capt. Arthur Phillip and his officers, spick & span in white breeches and cocked hats, drinking a toast to the Union Jack under the eucalyptus trees at Sydney Cove. Only different in theme was a painstakingly accurate view of one of Britain's great football crowds, Chelsea v. Arsenal at Stamford Bridge...
From 1865 to the present the Constitution's history has been "that of an instrument framed to fit a particular type of social and industrial society suddenly called upon to meet the issues of an entirely different order of life." Hence the rise of corporation lawyers, the warping of the 14th Amendment's "due process" clause from its intended protection of Negroes to its actual protection of corporations. "It had accomplished nothing for its expected beneficiaries, Rastus and Dinah, but might hold concealed blessings for transcontinental railroads and Standard Oil companies." Hence the growth in importance...
...also tells him that .she loves him. They are married, start facing life together. Clive learns Braille and type writing, fits himself to become her secretary. Rosamund, fired by his courage, buys a car, takes a house in London, shows herself in the world. In spite of the disparity in their ages, Clive's blind ness and Rosamund's birthmark, their marriage is a success. Author Deeping tactfully leaves them with the arrival of their first baby...
...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...