Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group, only 11% of the adults who had stopped school at the sixth grade could read as well as present-day sixth-graders. The professor thereupon set out to invent improved methods of teaching adults to read. Chief advance over the system of Dr. Stella Center at New York University's reading clinic (TIME, Dec. 6), was the use of a motion picture film that flashes successive phrases on a screen, to guide the eyes along a line of type. In 15 one-hour lessons Dr. Buswell increased the reading ability of his adults 15%, was highly pleased...
Viennese. Since last August the Phaidon Press of Vienna has distributed through the Oxford University Press in New York and through Allen & Unwin, Ltd. in London eight volumes of reproductions, over which many a U. S. publisher is cursing enviously under his breath. Until they appeared, nothing of their quality could be bought in U. S. bookstores for under $5. The Phaidon's top price was $3, for an edition of Botticelli containing 101 plates, 14 in color, and an introduction by the eminent Critic Lionello Venturi. Lowest price was $1.50, for The Disasters of War, Goya...
...that displayed in many a non-relief exhibition." What, therefore, was the surprise of Philadelphians converging on the museum that afternoon to find 60 pickets from the Artists' Union and from the Barnes Foundation at Merion, Pa. plodding grimly before the various entrances. Their signs proclaimed that "New York has 36 WPA art exhibits in one week -Philadelphia only ten in a year." That evening the dynamic doctor got the jump on reporters by suggesting that they, too, picket the museum and the Art Project "in protest against the Fascistic way it is being operated." When he heard this...
Under a pert caricature of New York City's explosive Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia at the art show of the Columbia University faculty appeared...
...spoke it. One of his pointed paragraphs was directed at Health Director William Cosgrove Hunsicker, 65, homeopath, genitourinary surgeon, onetime State senator: "The present incumbent's qualifications would not permit him to be appointed to any full-time position in any city or rural community in New York State, nor would he meet the requirements of district health officer of New York City, responsible for a city neighborhood of only 2,000 or 3,000 population...