Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this show offered stiff competition to the city parks, it was partly? because Landscaper Aladar Mulhoffer took full advantage of the primaveral weather. The sculpture was set in or against evergreen shrubs or flowering trees and a dozen leafing birches screened a high brick wall in the background. Contemplative visitors could sun themselves on benches. Some of the exhibitors dropped around with their chisels and took final, finicking chips. Despite some absurdities and a monotonous tendency among neo-archaic stone sculptors to leave their forms looking only partly chewed, able and varied work was on hand from Sculptors William Zorach...
Unlike most investment houses, the Wall Street brokerage firm of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.. dealing largely in securities and commodities, last week chose to be optimistic. Reckoning that inventories are now notably depleted and that the slump has been accentuated by the advancing of the Automobile Show from January to November, it noted in a memorandum to customers "that business has actually been doing better during the past two or three months than is generally believed and that there may be some upturn in industrial activity during the ensuing months...
...decimal it can never be expressed exactly, but the decimal value has been carried out by patient mathematicians to 707 digits. At the Paris Fair last year this huge number was written, for the edification of fairgoers, round & round in a spiral on the inside wall of a circular room...
Prime piece of apparatus is a vertical, hollow cylinder, five feet high and four feet in diameter. On the inside wall of the cylinder are alternating black & white stripes, running vertically from top to bottom. These stripes can be adjusted in width from a maximum of five inches down to Moth inch. The animal is placed inside the cylinder, which is then turned slowly by hand. If the animal makes eye or head movements following the rotation, it is assumed that it can see the stripes. Their width is progressively diminished until the animal stops turning its eyes- thus showing...
Three days before, the fallen financier had undergone his last inquisition-by the SEC, which sought to learn from his crimes a basis for preventing any more like them in Wall Street This morning he had said good-by to his wife and two daughters, all of whom have indicated that they will go to work. Standing silently in court he had just listened to a long, florid plea for mercy by his lawyer, Charles Tuttle. Excerpt...