Word: bertram
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prolific, Nebraska today ranks third in corn production, second in winter wheat. It is developing a lusty sugar beet industry, is a leader in the nurture of cattle and hogs. Famed it is too for its unique and sightly "skyscraper" Capitol building at Lincoln, designed by the late, great Bertram Grosvernor Goodhue...
Lincoln, capital of Nebraska, has two claims to esthetic distinction: 1) Its capitol building, last work of the late great Architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, is surely a piece of the world's greatest modern architecture. 2) Its symphony orchestra exists unaided by great-hearted guarantors and, miraculously, without deficit. Last week the Lincoln players gave the first concert of their fourth season. Again Rudolph Seidl, onetime oboist in the Minneapolis Symphony, conducted his 40 colleagues, all of whom receive union wages. Again there will be given four Sunday afternoon concerts sponsored by the junior division of the Lincoln Chamber...
...center where esthetic history and theory will be studied and taught, pundits will lecture, exhibitions will be held. The building will stand near the University's resplendent new chapel, upon the plans for which a great U. S. artist-the late Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue-was working at the time of his death (TIME, April...
...Lebanon, Ill., one Bertram Smith, college student, chewed 45 sticks of gum, broke the world's chewing gum record, got diabetes from excess of sugar...
...Briggs of Harvard became Radcliffe's president in 1903 Radcliffe's resources consisted of three buildings and money for a fourth and funds, including scholarships, of less than $500,000. He immediately addressed himself to the financial needs. First came a library; then a dormitory to stand next to Bertram Hall in the new quadrangle on Shepard Street. By 1908 these were built and in use; by 1914 two other dormitories were built and occupied. After the war Dean Briggs undertook to add $1,000,000 to the college endowment, and at his last commencement as president...