Word: usual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With wall coverings of quiet color and a restful lighting a more natural setting than that of the usual museum gallery has been achieved. Most important of all, however, is the fact that the arrangement, and at times the choice, of the exhibits has been planned not so much for study as for enjoyment. Such principles are all in line with recent tendencies in the presentation of paintings or of decorative subjects, but their application to a long-established classical collection in something of a departure...
...live. One of the best ways to get to know the Houses from the inside is to cat in their dinning halls, and for this purpose the University, beginning on Thursday will allow Freshmen to take one meal a week in any House, signing for it in the usual inter-house...
Manuscripts should be accompanied by the usual self-addressed, stamped envelope, and postmarked not later than October 35. They should be sent to Sapienza at Perkins Hall 30, Harvard Law School...
...usual, therefore, the British Foreign Office thought last week in terms of both hemispheres and in terms of war and politics ahead of economics. Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is none too pleased that the Chinese Government has now taken in the Chinese Communists and that envoys dash by chartered plane between Nanking and Moscow. Although President Roosevelt was offering the United Kingdom the chance of the century to extract the U. S. from isolation and team it up with Great Britain, this week Downing Street had its careful fingers crossed...
Voters balloted last Sunday on 16,000 candidates who sought 3,500 local offices in the cantons of France. As usual no candidate won in hundreds of constituencies, and in these final balloting takes place next Sunday. Returns from the first poll gave moderate bourgeois Premier Camille Chautemps, whose Radical Socialist Party is ludicrously misnamed, every reason to think that the French people have not swung to either extreme since they last voted in 1936, but favor the Popular Front Cabinet as its policies were recently revised and made less radical (TIME, Oct. 11). So far as could be judged...