Word: enliven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typical of the years just before the Revolution is the long roof-topping balustrade seen in both old points. In both the cupolo seems especially spindly and graceless. It shown has too few accents of gables and portals to enliven its front, Columbia has too many where Browns middle is marked by an exaggerated Princeton, Columbia, lacking it, is without a unifying center of interest...
...bright colorful mural for this Manhattan jail. Commissioner of Correction Austin Harbutt MacCormick is an avid psychologist, a firm believer in the use of color in the mental readjustment of female prisoners. So is Prison Superintendent Ruth Elizabeth Collins. She had already accepted a collection of travel posters to enliven the bleak, white-tiled corridors of the jail. So now the prisoners march to their individual rooms, the workshops and mess hall through halls burgeoning with such signs as VISIT SPAIN, TRAVEL IN INDIA, SEE SORRENTO. But both Commissioner MacCormick and Superintendent Collins felt that this was not sufficient. Chosen...
...usual clichés about the backwardness, the stodginess of all Academies. And with considerable justice. To the quick glance of a gallerygoer the walls looked about the same, but Norway-born Artist Lie had done about as much as one person in one season could do to enliven the Academy. Prizewinners, announced fortnight ago (TIME, March 18), were familiar to the public before the show opened. Almost all of them were painted in the modern idiom. Instead of the exhausting acres of mediocrity of previous shows, only 260 oils were on view, and among them were exhibitors few expected...
...secret number, which serves the Telephone Company as a check on repaired phones, has become public property since a student spent several hours of idleness trying out different combinations. He guarantees it to enliven an already joyous evening. If the number should not work, the investigator should dial eight instead of nine since Cambridge phones are divided into two classes...
...duty. I will do mine . . ." so spake His Grace, Charles Duke of Burgundy, early on the morning of the Battle of Paris some five hundred years age. And so the Vagabond, at ten o'clock this morning will journey to Sever $3 to hear Mr. Kelsey enliven the routine of French A as he presents delightful hits from French history...