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Word: underground (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benson-Doran ($2.00). The last word in literary delirium tremens. A collection of stories that would make a ghost blanch with horror and wrap his white sheets closer about him for protection. Disinterred corpses, supernatural beings, voices from the grave, razors dripping blood, coffins that won't stay underground-till the palsied reader dare not make a dash to negotiate that dark hall which leads to bed and safety. One is left with the conviction that Author Benson must still be sitting up somewhere. How did he ever dare go to bed after writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Books: Apr. 21, 1924 | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...sculpture, Red Revel by Albert Dreyfus. A very much guttered wax candle is snuffed by a scull; the smoke issuing from the eye sockets curls up in the form of two reclining; female figures. The whole piece is stained crimson. Afroyim covers one entire wall with his New York Underground, a woven pattern of subways, sewers and steam pipes. Morris Kantor, a cutter of clothes, shows two results of painting at night; one-My Job-is a portrait of himself at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Russians | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

...heard in a tube 85 feet deep under the Hudson River. But Baltimore and Washington cannot communicate satisfactorily by radio. This is due to a large "dead spot" or peculiar geological formation in the earth between the two cities, says Dr. James Harris Rogers, inventor of undersea and underground radio communication. The energy waves travel from base plate to base plate, rather than from aerial to aerial, according to Dr. Rogers. Long-distance messages take the way of least resistance and are not hampered by dead spots. Washington electrical experts are experimenting on the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Machine Age | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

...opposition to Mr. Wright's proposal, the Elevated has gone so far as to construct a miniature model of subway tubes passages, and underground cables, to illustrate their complexities. This model was displayed with considerable effect in yesterday's hearing before the legislative committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WALK FROM CENTRAL SQ." IS ELEVATED'S SLOGAN | 2/1/1924 | See Source »

...continued Mr. Marck, "twelve feet underground, and we control the college! Without us down here the students would be frozen out of the classrooms and their own rooms and no work could be done after dark. University Hall wold have to suspend suspensions could not work without heart and elective light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Subterranean Passage Runs Under Yard and College Buildings; "Harvard Is Run From Below," Declares Engineer | 1/29/1924 | See Source »

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