Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...catch sight of President Coolidge in northwestern Wisconsin. Brown, brisk, he continued his vacation last week unirritated. He cast flies on the Brule River at all hours and put the largest fishes which unsuccessfully tried to eat the flies into the Cedar Lodge "live box," so that he could display them to visitors or eat them at pleasure. He kept his semiweekly office hours in the high school library at Superior, and made one unscheduled trip on which Mrs. Coolidge accompanied him. She sat quietly at the window while he signed some papers. She, too, was feeling altogether fit once...
...works are scattered through out the world, in museums, on battlefields, in ocean liners, in parks or outside of great houses. Several are in the Louvre; the architects of the Cheney Bros, building in Manhattan persuaded him to design the great iron doors, window frames, screens, trees for the display of their silks. He designed the tall iron gates at the entrance to the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in Paris three years ago where he received the highest prize. Describing the things he has made by their ordinary names makes it seem that Brandt is no more than a successful...
...university of the size of Harvard it is unpreventable that the progression of the various Departments should display a broken line of advance. But it is also singularly unfortunate that the departments where practical demonstration and experiment, and consequently the equipment, are of paramount importance, should be the very ones to lag, that a depressing lack of facilities should hamper the investigation of an exceptionally capable body of research specialists whose work is, paradoxically, as commercial as it is cultural in its value. The increasing need which the scientific departments feel for equipment which may keep them abreast of progress...
...prize of $1,000 will be offered next year for the advertisement most effective in its use of the display line. In addition there will be awards offered for the most effective use of text, of pictorial ilustration, and of typography. The award for the best advertising research has been discontinued because of the belief of the University authorities that this award had not been a stimulus for more effective research work. The prize for the best combination use of text and illustration has also been discontinued...
...airplane, and flies his beautiful prey to a great stone cave in the mountains, where Janey expects crude camp fare, but finds instead all the comforts of home-roaring fires, fine books, kindly serving maids. At dinner appears the snivelling prince, captive too, to be tortured with the display of beauty that might have been his, but is now allotted to the bandit's delectation. Except by way of torturing the prince, di Bari's intentions are, however, honorable...