Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goading Manchukuo into war on her side...
...world, the only aquarium cleaned by divers with vacuum cleaners, the only one where some animals are fed under water by hand, the only one where penguins can be seen swimming under water. The Marineland tanks have 200 glass portholes through which the fish can be seen from the side and from below. The tanks get 2,000 gallons of sea water, filtered through coquina rock, every minute. Marineland cost $500,000, is managed by Count Ilya Tolstoy, grandson of the late great Russian novelist...
...Federation of Social Agencies threw up its hands when it learned that nearly all of the bums and hobos of the House slept on the floor, were required neither to take baths or medical examinations. Father Rice, who was then directing St. Joseph's as a side line to his parish work, hearing rumors that the city might close the place, exclaimed: "I'll go to jail first!" The uproar resulted in gifts of some 150 beds to St. Joseph...
Harvard's former Law Dean Roscoe Pound used to greet his entering class: "Gentlemen, take a good look at the persons seated on either side of you-for one of you will not be with us next year." Last week Yale's Dean Gulliver was able to say to his first-year class: "Gentlemen, take a good look at the men seated on either side of you-for both of them are Phi Beta Kappas." Yale's School, annually besieged by four times as many applicants as it can admit, can pick & choose...
This watercolor is perhaps the best of his works included in the exhibit. Grosz shows, by means of florid, fleshy color, the essential similarity existing between a man and the side of raw meat which he is preparing to cut. Placed on a table behind which this butcher-like individual is standing, are plates and bowls which contain ground meats, salamis, and other foods representing the products for which the carcass of the slaughtered animal is utilized. In the lower left corner of the painting, there is a potted plant, the pale green leaves of which serve as a restful...