Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things in our own back garden (nothing so sensational as levitation) which were most fascinating and inexplicable. But the best of these "tricks" was one which was done before a group of us in Madras a few years ago. The particular performer was not fully of the holy man type of the person concerned in the levitation. However, he did something which was fairly a test of his capacity, for he drank a teaspoonful of undiluted nitric acid. It was not his nitric acid, but some supplied from our college laboratory. He drank first about a wineglassful of water...
...entirely different type is the work "Central Park" by George Grosz. A true modernist he likes broad splashes of bright colors and brings out his ideas from impressions created by these. An other differing type also are the bitter satires of "The Senate" by William Gropper and of "Landscape Near Chicago" by Aaron Bohrod. Both of these works bring out the grotesque and the absurd in American life...
...gold, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. this week announced that the U. S., Britain and France had reached a temporary agreement for the exchange of that metal in the course of trade. Though Secretary Morgenthau called this pact, secretly negotiated by transatlantic telephone, a "new type of gold standard," it was really nothing more than a technical extension of the U. S.-Franco-British agreement of last month to use their respective stabilization funds to steady the dollar, the pound and the franc (TIME...
...released for publication this boost: "The King will be glad if the Secretary of State will convey to Squadron-Leader Swain his Majesty's congratulations on his fine achievement in breaking the altitude record with all-British equipment." Part of Hero Swain's equipment was a new type of air-tight rubber "Safety Suit" which, during the descent from his record altitude of 49,967 ft., nearly suffocated him. He escaped death by slashing open the suit...
...pictures of historic spots or routine railroad practice "behind the scenes." Highlights were a refueling station near Hebron, an old covered bridge near Liberty Mills, the engine house at Fort Wayne, where a turntable was turned, engineers posed and various locomotives were arrayed with placards explaining size, name, power, type, use. At each stop there were lectures by guides in overalls and white gauntlets. Other amusements consisted of a World Series broadcast, bridge games, an accordion player. Next trip is scheduled...