Word: architects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: WHOSE BODY?−Dorothy L. Sayers−Boni and Liveright ($2.00). A respectable little London architect wakes up one morning to dis- cover the body of an unknown Israelite, nude except for a pair of gold pince-nez, in his bathtub. Whose body? And who is responsible for its presence there? The police, as usual, bungle the matter, but Lord Peter Wimsey, a delightfully indolent young clubman, assisted by the usual Watson and a splendidly upstage butler named Bunter...
...port of Boston; Professor S. L. Garrison '12 of Amherst; Professor W. H. Davis '12 of Bowdoin; the Hon. Joseph E. Warner '06, former speaker of the Massachusetts House: Professor W. J. V. Osterhout and Professor Zechariah Chafee of the University; Mr. John Nolen G. '05, landscape architect; and Professor N. C. Maynard of Tufts...
Died: Elliott Woods, 58, Washington architect, inventor, scientist, at Spring Lake, N. J. He helped design the Senate and House of Representatives Office Buildings...
...last decade Professor Geddes has spent in India and Palestine. He surveyed 50 different cities of India, from Bombay to Calcutta and from Amritsar to Madura, producing comprehensive reports and plans for every department of urban life from sewage and traffic regulation to education. He is an able architect and engineer and has drawn plans for Tagore's new schools in Bengal, for a zoo at Lucknow and a university at Hyderabad. At Bombay he has collected a city-planning exhibition occupying a hall 200 feet long. In Palestine he cooperated with the Zionists in survey work, including plans...
...edifice does not quite accord with the architect's specifications. Only half the children can be taught in the primary schools which remain, and they only half-taught, without pencils, paper, shoes or soup. The others, running about in bands of hoodlums, pick up their education and their food from the streets. There are but five universities in Russia; one is headed by an ex-convict, while in all of them underfed and ragged professors attend cold lecture-rooms bundled in overcoats and mittens...