Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Uncle to Architect. At the peak of his popularity, in November 1943, Churchill suddenly switched Woolton to a newer, much tougher assignment-the unpalatable duty of persuading regulation-weary Britons that control must continue into their peacetime lives as well...
...Understand Capitalism. By U.S. standards, White found many of Russia's factories unclean and inefficient, its buildings drab and shoddy. "What is missing," he asserts, "is competition. Nobody bothers to put up a striking store front or a beautifully arranged window display. . . . The architect who drew the plans for that dreary workers' apartment had to please not the people who live in it, nor the promoter-owners who hope to keep it rented, but the Government officials. . . . This does not mean that the Russian people do not want beauty ... it means that they have a poor system...
BREAKFAST AT THE HERMITAGE-Alfred Leland Crabb-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.75). In a sentimental novel of post-Civil War Tennessee, Professor Crabb tells how a poor boy became an architect while the Ladies Hermitage Association fought to restore "Old Hickory's" home...
...years ago, as a member of the Sol Hurok troupe, she made another ballet exit-when the Government refused to let her go to California because of her Japanese blood. Sono, who has a brother with the Nisei 442nd combat team and is married to a young French-Moroccan architect, has never had any other trouble over race...
Irving traveled through the West with two Europeans. Count Albert-Alexandre de Pourtalès, 19, had been sent away from Switzerland to sow his wild oats in some other country. His tutor was Charles Joseph Latrobe, nephew of the architect of the Capitol, a botanist, geologist, musician, artist. With these companions Irving joined a Government expedition bound for Fort Gibson in the Indian Territory (near the present site of Tulsa, Oklahoma). Irving wrote Tour on the Prairies as a result of the trip, after filling five notebooks with his observations. The Western Journals of Washington Irving prints the notebooks...