Word: apex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Boston or San Francisco. This is an ideal toward which we must work; today our fellowship and scholarship funds are woefully inadequate. In my opinion we should have a large number of fellowships paying as much as twelve hundred dollars. The universities in this country should be the apex of a pyramid based on our highly developed school system. A path to the top should be open to all of exceptional talent. The privately endowed institutions must keep the way clear for the gifted youth with limited means...
...expend the same in an appropriate manner for the purpose of adding to the beauty of said city, which I have always loved." Architect Arthur Brown Jr., designer of San Francisco's City Hall, designed a monumental lighthouse, a fluted column rising from a severely simple base, its apex pierced with galleries for an observation platform. From its tip will blaze a flame that no fireman can quench, fed by city...
...that his bad manners are traceable to the Montana mining camp. There is his wife, a check-room girl, beautiful, cheap, pampered, dumb, who is the cynosure in the boudoir scene. Then the authors proceed to fill out the play with servant side. The villainous, sleek chauffeur, Ricci, the apex of the triangle completed by Dora, and Gustave, whose continental manners embroll the kitchen in a melee with the carving set, which ruins the lobster aspic, the piece de resistance of the dinner. There is the dissipated motion picture actor, living on dreams of the past, played in a heroic...
...apex of the triangular lot, stretching along, the north of the Yard will be leveled off in order to form a large street area, which the fire engines will cross getting...
...monument atop the hill, designed by Manhattan Architects Rodgers & Poor, is a 66-ft granite pylon set upon a star-shaped foundation. In cross-section it is triangular, the apex pointing north to where the hill formerly stood. From the apex to the south face is carved a rugged suggestion of swept-back wings. A revolving beacon surmounts the shaft. For the present at least, the beacon will be more of a landmark to mariners than to airmen. The nearest airport is army's Langley Field, 80 mi. north. The nearest airway passes some 200 mi. to the west...