Word: adorned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England, and as a result, the shop's reputation in that game is perhaps even greater than in tennis: 163 championship winning racquets have come from the Tennis and Squash Shop, and among the regular customers there have been thirteen national champions. Many of their winning racquets now adorn the walls of the shop--including those of last year's national amateur champion, A. W. Patterson '32, and intercollegiate champion Kim Canavarro...
This is a surprise to art students at Louisiana State University, where classes in fresco painting have been going on for five years. These classes are under the able direction of Conrad Albrizio, whose frescos adorn several public buildings in Louisiana and who has executed two frescos in Louisiana and Alabama post offices on commission from the U. S. Section of Fine Arts...
...least pretentious store fronts in Harvard Square is that of "Billings and Stover, Apothecaries." Two simple panels, each supporting a wooden mixing jar and twin glasses of chemically colored water, are all that adorn the "show" windows. The fact is that the firm of Billings and Stover doesn't have to advertise or dress up in order to attract customers; it has been going strong ever since...
When a public building is erected, the job is done-always in theory if not always in fact-by the contractor who submits the lowest bid. With respect to murals which nowadays adorn big public buildings, this principle would not ordinarily work. The lowest bidder might turn out to be a sign painter, a Greek restaurant dauber, a student. Yet last week in Philadelphia a raft of murals stood completed which represented perhaps the first, and certainly the biggest, artistic bidfest in the U. S. The murals decorated a new $3,390,000 Municipal Court, scheduled to open around...
...years ago the Associated Press wanted to adorn the entrance to its new building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center with a large, impressive plaque in conventional bronze, offered a prize of $1,000 for the best design. Winner was Isamu Noguchi, muscular, California-born, Japanese-Irish sculptor, who submitted a small-scale plaster model depicting five symbolic figures (editor, reporter, photographer, teletype and telephoto operators) straining eyes and ears for news. With sudden inspiration and daring, A. P. decided to have its plaque in stainless steel...