Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would the fair sex be excluded from this paradise of light and beauty. "My plant," asserts the architect, "would definitely have women. In this war they have proved themselves a great boost to morale of the workers. They add a touch of beauty to any plant...
...Architect of this victory was General Wang Yao-wu, a peppery, 40-year-old Shantung man. Stocky, muscular and tanned, like most Shantung peasants, he has a ferocious temper, a vivid and profane vocabulary. He is of the very core of the old Chinese Army, a Whampoa Academy cadet who fought his way up from platoon to army group commander. But in Hunan he used methods long neglected in China...
Leader's Man. These men spoke not only for their nations but for themselves. They had met Franklin Roosevelt face to face, had broken bread with him, heard his infectious laugh, studied with him the problems of war & peace. He had been their surest common link, the tolerant architect of their coalition. And something of what they felt was felt in like degree by leaders of the United Nations everywhere...
...last week Le Bosquel was rising from its ruin. The Ministry of Reconstruction had chosen it to be a model for the rebuilding of France's shattered villages. Famed Architect Le Corbusier had planned its new form : a brick church and schoolhouse, a mairie fashioned from local clay, a paved square with a pond, homes and farms set in a concentric pattern that did away with the clumsy, age-old system of scattered land holdings. Now a bustling team of 70 blue-uniformed boys, recruited by the Ministry of Labor from bombed-out Picardy families, were clearing debris...
...Oxford group are A. H. Smith, warden of New College, Oxford; M. Platnauer, vice-president and fellow of Brasenose College: N. H. K. Coghill, fellow of Exeter College: T. H. Keeley, fellow of Wadham College: H. B. Moore, Brasenose, College secretary; and F. Gibberd, architect...