Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dance will be held in the spacious dining room of Dudley Hall, which has been decorated for the occasion with evergreen trees, streamers, and wall decorations...
...years ago in Menard, Tex., a six-foot bricklayer named Ernest Elmer Baker got the notion that his religion, Pentecostalism, would cure Russian Godlessness. He would, he told his father, who gave him $1.40 to start on the trip, "preach the Gospel to the Bolshevik! under the Kremlin wall." After tramping without visas over Germany and Poland into Russia, Ernest Elmer Baker ended up in a detention camp at Minsk, where he was identified last summer by the second secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Moscow (TIME, July 1). Last week, with $100 raised by his family to repatriate...
...fibres in strong hydrochloric acid, the cellulose structure came visibly apart under powerful microscopes. The particles, it turned out, had not been too small to see but were hidden by a cementing substance that the acid dissolved. There were football-shaped bodies some .00006 in. long. As the cell wall was built the particles formed compact strands like strings of sausages, and as string after string was laid down on the cell wall they merged so neatly with the gelatinous cement that the structure looked completely homogeneous unless the cement were dissolved. Aware now of the double structure of cellulose...
...side today if an instant's inattention had not sent the car he was driving off the road and crashing into a tree (TIME, Sept. 9). The Queen is buried in Belgium but around the tiny plot of Swiss soil Leopold III ordered built a low wall with a cross erected inside. Indignantly the agent who effected purchase of this piteous plot said that its Swiss owners had "made things very difficult...
...peace. He stated that only through an active United Front for Peace and mass political action can the Powers-that-be be stopped in their mad drive to war. He quoted the statement of General Smedley D. Butler that the military forces of this country were the tools of Wall Street: the powers-that-be. He recommended the American League against War and Fascism, now numbering over one and a half million members. And most important, he spoke of the startling achievements of the United Front in France against war and fascism. None of these things are pleasing...