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Word: loop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Chicago's opera affairs are not in a happy state. Sopranos Rosa Raisa, Claudia Muzio, Lotte Lehmann, Frida Leider have been giving capable performances. But despite expectations the pretentious new house has not proved popular. Beauty is widely conceded to the building. On the northwest edge of the Loop, it rises from the murky Chicago River directly across from the unquestionably beautiful Chicago Daily News Building & Plaza. But the acoustics are not yet so good as in the famed old Auditorium. And it contains, apparently, a grave psychological error: In placing the boxes the architect seems to have forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Garden's Camille | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

Acting Police Commissioner John H. Alcock last week summoned, to a cooperation meeting at the University of Chicago, all police officials presiding within a radius of 50 mi. of the Loop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: War Between Two Worlds | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

...strung along on racks as in a power station. Headphone connections are scattered on tables. Three Diesel engines run 50-kilowatt generators. Upstairs are sleeping quarters with a kitchen, so operators may live through a Nebraska blizzard. Outside on poles are miles and miles of antenna wire. One great loop is suspended 60 ft. above the flat ground. New York is brought into range with a Beveridge directional antenna. Other loops are pointed at London, Porto Alegre Brazil, Moscow, Sidney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Monitor | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...dual flight instruction at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. Instructors, pilots, students stood with upturned chins one day last fortnight watching Long Lance make his first solo. The chins fell agape as his plane, nose down, roared earthward in a power dive, pulled up and over in a perfectly executed loop. Long Lance climbed back into the sky and the dumfounded watchers heard his motor die to a hiss, saw the ship stall, saw it "fall off" on one wing and into what every novice should dread?a tailspin. The motor barked again, and Long Lance pulled out and into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Nov. 10, 1930 | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...statement in reference to TIME'S story under the head "Negro Baptists," on p. 34 of issue of Aug. 25. The story states that Chicago newspapers, according to the colored churchmen, failed to report on the Nations (colored) Baptist convention in retaliation for the colored boycott on "loop" merchants who refuse to employ colored help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 15, 1930 | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

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