Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proud a feature of Matanuska as its shining community creamery, schools, hospital and recreation centre, individualistic Walter Pippel journeyed to Anchorage and other railroad towns to hawk it himself. When at length the colony's managers, Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp., reminded Colonist Pippel that he had contracted to use the co-operative and pay a 5% charge for its services, Mr. Pippel blew up. He said that in two years he had made $11,000 by his own hard work, had no intention of disgorging $550. Rather than pay up, he prepared to go to court to assert...
While the jury was out, reporters at the press table got sorry for pallid, sobbing Miss Hofmann. They bought some lipstick for her, learned that she doesn't use lipstick. After the jury reported, Judge Knox said he was sorry, too, but would have to make an example of her. For her: four years: Mechanic Voss, six years; Friends Rumrich and Glaser, two each...
Outside, patches of tin show where he has removed boards for use in his tunnel. In the summers he worked on a ranch to get money for more tunneling. For clothing he used garments discarded by other prospectors, patched them with flour sacking. He does not smoke or chew, but takes a nip of wine occasionally. He has never, he says, been lonely. Once he came stumbling into the shack of a neighbor, shaking and bloody. "Bad cave in," he said. "Nearly got me that time...
...them with stages bigger than any other in radio), seven smaller studios. Each auditorium seat was upholstered in material as sound-absorbent as the average spectator and his clothes, to provide equal acoustical values for rehearsals in empty studios and broadcasts played to packed houses. (This trick was used earlier in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, is upset only by an uncommonly dressy audience. For starched-shirt bosoms are poor absorbers, bounce sounds back toward the stage.) Unseen were 20 miles of cable, some 500 vacuum tubes, 100 amplifiers, a gasoline-driven generator for emergency use in Hollywood...
...company. In England he has earned his living as sceneshifter and flyman in a theatre, prop-boy in a film studio, "effect" man with film companies. Last month Poet Laura Riding wrote a pamphlet about him. Said she: "There is a work of purification to be done in the use of camera, and Len Lye's existing films hint at some of the ways in which it may be done...