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...nearly three times as many as Grand Rapids drew last year, seven times as many as in 1934. Once indifferent to functionalism, Berkey & Gay had recognized the market for modern stuff (27% of all furniture sold last year) by adding to its period reproductions a line of moderns in "softer form, with sweeping rather than boxlike lines." Promoter McKay, now Berkey & Gay's board chairman, became a hero to Grand Rapids. Enough orders were placed to keep his newly-employed workmen busy for five months. Governor Fitzgerald wired congratulations. Beamed Mayor William Timmers: "If it weren...
...ready to go to work on The Country Doctor with the role of Dr. Dafoe played by Jean Hersholt. Incidents during the week's shooting which, so far as his charges were concerned. Dr. Dafoe limited to an hour or less each morning: ¶ Instead of Klieg lights, softer ones were used in the Quintuplets' nursery in the Dafoe Hospital. Cameramen wore sterile masks and gowns. Actor Hersholt and Actress Peterson (the nurse) had their clothing sterilized, their noses and throats sprayed before each scene. The adults exhibited much more nervousness and confusion than did the five bouncing...
...like butter. Squeezed by 300 tons per sq. in., some of the contraction of a substance is due to a shrinkage of the atoms themselves. The complex atom of cesium shrinks most of all metals. Of 48 metals under high pressure, 39 become better conductors of electricity. Iron grows softer, glass harder. Squeezed water turns solid (''ice") in five different forms, one of which does not melt until heated to nearly 212°F. Under the increased pressures announced last week, two more kinds of ice are formed, one of which can be made hotter than boiling water...
...unanimously agreed that the Harvard man's beard is softer than anyone else's. The barbers wouldn...
...brick covers a multitude of shades, and the red of Virginia is softer and warmer than that of Massachusetts. The alternating long-and-short pattern of the bricks ("Flemish bond") is accentuated by the deeper-burned color of those laid head outward (the "headers"). In short, without "applying" sculptural ornament of any kind, a less Puritan, more decorative effect has been achieved...