Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artistic success is due primarily to the solution of a problem that has been curling architects' hair since the machine age began: the problem of coordinating the art of architecture with the science of engineering. TVA has kept anonymous its thousands of artistic-minded engineers and efficient-minded designers. But the main responsibility for coordinating the true and the beautiful in TVA has been two men's: Chief Engineer Theodore Bissell Parker, Reserve Lieut. Colonel (Engineers), and Principal Architect Roland Anthony Wank...
...cathedral's troubles began when an overenthusiastic congregation and architect went ahead on a $2,000,000 structure though only $400,000 had been raised. Work stopped early in the depression when $600,000 had been spent, one section completed. Since then, finances have gone from bad to worse. Last May the mortgage-holder, Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. of St. Louis, foreclosed, offered to settle its $266,316 claim for $185,000, meanwhile started charging $500 a month rent. Because "even the rent had not been paid for six months, the bank at last took the keys...
...Attended with Mrs. Roosevelt Easter church services day after her trip to Dedham, Mass, to see her niece-namesake, Eleanor Roosevelt, married to a young British architect, Edward P. Elliott. Sunday evening, Mrs. Roosevelt boarded a plane for Los Angeles to see her eldest son, Captain James Roosevelt, marry Miss Romelle Schneider, Mayo Clinic nurse...
...Fort Meade's architect-engineer (Baltimore's seasoned J. E. Greiner Co.) recommended building the camp on the old World War I site, utilizing sewers and roads. The Army insisted on a new site with practically no roads, no utilities, but plenty of sewerage problems...
Seasons in Reverse. Thus did Adolf Hitler apostrophize his beloved season, spring. His ambition, which he has often avowed, is to be an architect-not only of heroic buildings; but also of mankind in his image. And spring is his building season. "Just now," he said in a recent speech, "I am feeling particularly vigorous. Spring is coming...