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Gropius' New Kensington project is only the most notable of a flock of new defense houses being built by the country's best architects. Already complete and occupied are the sombrero-eaved cottages which Los Angeles' Richard J. Neutra designed for Avion Village, near Dallas. Cranbrook's Eliel Saarinen is working on designs for 200 defense units in Detroit; George Howe has an assignment at Middletown, Pa. On the next largest project of all is San Francisco's able William W. Wurster, who drew up the site plan for 1,692 units for Mare Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Architects for Defense | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...were rather cracking under the strain of the long runs on these terrible roads with the new nervous tension of carrying real wounded who groan and cry out at every bump. Henry had left the front, where we are stationed, and gone back to our base, when a Boche avion passed over the camp and dropped four bombs on it. When the first fell Henry hurried out to see if any one was hurt, and, as he left the tent, was struck by an eclat from the second which made a ghastly wound in his hip and thigh. Fortunately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.M. SUCKLEY'S DEATH RELATED | 5/24/1917 | See Source »

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