Word: 1900s
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Salt Lake City is covered for the next 30 years by the Central Utah Project. But Denver's hydrological future is far less certain. Because the Rockies impede rainfall, the city enjoys 300 days of sunshine a year. The weather, though, comes at a price. Ever since the early 1900s, elaborate water projects have sought to capture snow melts, pumping water across the mountains from the moist west to the dry east. That engineering worked satisfactorily until 1990, when the Environmental Protection Agency outlawed the building of the giant Two Forks dam in order to protect a trout-rich river...
Barnes was the classic American self-made man. The son of a black-Irish Philadelphia butcher, he went through medical school and made his fortune in the early 1900s on an antiseptic, which he developed in partnership with a German chemist and registered under the trade name Argyrol. Even before World War I, Barnes was a millionaire -- a word with meaning then. And he was developing a curiosity about modern...
Only in Britain is this Danish-British painter known, and only there is his influence felt. As a modern Realist, he energized younger British Modernists in the 1900s like Spencer Frederick Gore and Harold Gilman. You can still see his mark today, on the work of figurative artists like Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach and even Francis Bacon. Sickert's "brown world" of rented rooms in Camden Town, with their plump, sweaty nudes, sprawled on iron bedsteads, dense and claustrophobic, runs into the younger painters', its solidly constructed Realism forming a bridge across the light turbulence of derivative avant- gardism...
Gradually it filled Cerda's grid, which is now the world's greatest museum of 1900s architecture. The big Catalan mercantile families who made their piles after 1850 and ran the city tended to preen themselves on being modern versions of Renaissance princes -- all the more so since most of their grandfathers had been artisans or colonial hustlers. There was a lot of pent- up vigor and ambition itching to glorify itself...
Back in the early 1900s, traditional red brick first-year dormitories were built along the river. Now, many of those structures are part of Winthrop and Kirkland Houses...