Word: walling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play of mine in rehearsal in the Lyric Theatre in London, the time was supposed to change from the present to 1783, during a blackout. We were afraid the audience wouldn't believe in this. So Professor Wood installed for us, against the theatre's back wall, one organ pipe, height circa 40 ft., the biggest pipe that could be carted through traffic and in the stage door. Its purpose was kept a mystery. Wood's idea was that the lowest of all notes, subaudible, but vibrating the eardrum, would produce, on cue, a sensation indefinable...
...recognition that TVA is primarily a power project. It was notable also in that TVA wholesale rates are 60% as high as private power rates, indicating that with a similar capital reduction private utilities could undersell TVA. "One of the most interesting angles of the allocation report," observed the Wall Street Journal, "is the flat assumption that the market will be obtained for all the power in calculating the earning power of the system. The only way they can do that, at present, of course, is to take the business away from the private utilities...
Last week "The Ungovernable" lashed out with a flood which promised to change not only its own course but also the course of the whole Sino-Japanese War. Severe breaks in the dikes near Kaifeng sent a five-foot wall of water fanning out over a 500-square-mile area, spreading death. Toll from Yellow River floods is not so much from quick drowning as from gradual disease and starvation. The river's filth settles ankle-deep on the fields, mothering germs, smothering crops. Last week, about 500,000 peasants were driven from 2,000 communities to await rescue...
...French Parliament, Communist and Rightist deputies howled at each other over the question of aid to Leftist Spain, were prevented from fistfighting on the Chamber floor only by a hastily formed wall of old-soldier ushers. Speaker of the Chamber Edouard Herriot suspended the sitting twice to restore order and next day Premier Edouard Daladier adjourned Parliament until November, thus freeing his hands to do as he likes without parliamentary interference. Reported moved to the Spanish Leftist border as a frontier patrol were 30,000 Mobile Guards. Then came the official announcement that no longer would France allow munitions from...
...translating education into practical terms, which makes it useful to society, can be most wisely done in their home community. It is ideal that when ready to enter the business world, the graduate turn home rather than to some new community. The farm boy, for instance who settles in Wall Street is selfishly wasting his education, as far as his home is concerned. The present trend toward decentralization,--the urban river running backwards--suggests that the graduate think of his own community, for as each community becomes more integrated, the need for the knowledge gained by its youth increases. With...