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...Every water closet shall be provided with a local vent. ... It shall be carried upward or into a heated flue or into the kitchen chimney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Mrs. Coolidge's Closets | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, stands a 24-ft. figure of Orpheus, demigod of Music, sinewy and poised in bronze, with his great lyre lifted and one hand just sprung from the strings. In a circle of fountains below him eight listeners, wakened from death, turn outward and upward toward the music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Important Wedding | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...walls of most of the throat, of the windpipe and its branches (bronchi and bronchioles) are covered with fine, threadlike filaments called cilia, which continually move, waving their tips with an upward motion. When bismuth powders or pulverized lead glass were blown deep into the lungs of anesthetized cats, Dr. Barclay and his associates found that the dust in dry form remained in the windpipe and its branches, never penetrating into the little sacs (alveoli) which absorb oxygen from the air and eliminate carbon dioxide from the blood. They could see by X-ray the foreign particles moving from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cleansing Cilia | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Opposite Vag was another granite wall, rising as steeply from the valley floor as the walls of a room. The vast expanse of bare rock, which swept upward with breath-taking rapidity, was as ponderously grand as the earth itself. Crowning the cliff was an abrupt line of forest; and Vag could imagine wandering into it. Here were no scrub-by pines with long dusty-green needles--mere chaparral growth such as covered the foot--hill slopes-but high-mountain firs and redwoods, giants which had already lived through many centuries. They formed an auditorium with a roof far above...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

...above its April 16 high of 121 thus-in theorists' jargon-confirming the action of the railroad average (which passed its April high) and indicating an intermediate upswing. Brokerage boardrooms fluttered with rumors that Robert Rhea of Colorado Springs, best-known interpreter of The Theory, had said upward breaking of 121 would definitely mark the end of the bear market. This was denied by High Priest Rhea. At any rate, industrials closed the week still below 121. And there was no theory or index that said business had definitely landed on a shelf, or reached bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Stand-Off | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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