Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mysterious drilling about the yard was capped by the sudden appearance of a great pit in front of Hollis Hall. Some characters were even seen snooping about with divining rods or trying to conceal large, empty potato sacks. One was studying the daily quotation on gold in the Wall Street Journal...
...which were fashionable in Chicago when he was a medical student. During office hours he wears a white surgeon's jacket and carries a gold-plated stethoscope. In his office are floodlights for taking pictures, a small dark-colored desk and a narrow four-poster bed. On a wall is a picture of the Boy Christ in the Temple...
...year that Mr. Simmons decided to build a furniture General Motors, the U. S. furniture industry began to feel Depression in all its joints. In one of the earliest and most resounding Wall Street collapses. Simmons stock plummeted from $188 per share in September 1929 to $11 in 1930. The insolvency record of the furniture industry went from 79 manufacturers with total liabilities of $3,710,000 in 1929 to 143 manufacturers with liabilities of $11,223,000 in 1932. Included in the latter figure was Berkey & Gay, which closed down its plants in 1931, went into receivership in February...
Zing! An arrow whizzes through the air, crashes through a light globe, and imbeds itself in the wall, vibrating smartly. Three more do the same thing, leaving a remonstrant, unidentified bather in the dark. It's not at all certain that the arrows are golden. But that opening shot is the only excuse for the name, "The Golden Arrow," of Bette Davis' latest. Or else we're too obtuse...
...rooms in the Houses to the class of 1938, the state of affairs met with by the anxious applicants becomes more lucid. While the inevitable group of helots roll up their rugs preparatory to moving into Little Hall and those who never say die line up before the wailing wall of Professor Merriman's residence with more hope than expectancy, the hardships imposed by the totalitarian methods of the Central Committee are met with neither understanding nor patience...