Word: actually
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reviewer reiterates a hoary cliché that is excruciatingly provoking to actual...
...purpose of the new building is to provide facilities for students working in the visual arts: drawing, painting, sculpture, and other types of shopwork. The large portion of the building which will be devoted to highly flexible workshop and studio space reflects the Administration's desire to emphasize students' actual contact with materials...
...surplus disposal in 1946, after Symington had moved on to the War Department, its report rapped him for "chaotic administrative conditions" and "favoritism if not downright corruption" in sales of surplus property. But Symington's SPA, as he pointed out to the committee, had only a policymaking function; actual sales of surplus property were handled by other agencies, mainly the Commerce Department and the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Symington had no operating control over sales, no way of seeing to it that his policies were carried out. After half a year of frustrations, he went to Truman and urged...
...Moroccans at first left the uninhibited economy essentially alone. Tax evaders from all over the world continued to pour their furtive millions into Tangier's banks. More dummy "Tangier corporations" sprang up to shield actual corporations from paying taxes back home. Legitimate banks, as well as companies that called themselves banks, and a host of money-changers could still offer currency bargains unsurpassed anywhere...
...When the actual structure began going up, its exterior proved too much for many critics as well, was dubbed "the snail," an "indigestible hot cross bun," a "wash ing machine." Robert Moses, New York City Parks Commissioner and Metropoli tan Museum ex officio trustee, decided that it looked like "an inverted oatmeal dish." Wright fired back: "It's going to make the Metropolitan Museum look like a Protestant barn." Twenty-one artists signed a round-robin protest charging that Wright's scheme for hanging would throw their canvases askew and the sloping ramp (3%) would provide no level...