Word: brande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...builder of a hotel in Tokyo which by some engineering magic withstood the great earthquake of 1923. To the U. S. man-in-the-subway, his name was associated with scandalous episodes ground from the inhuman human-interest mill of the tabloid newspapers. A decade ago, when the brand-new International Style in architecture was seriously taken up by U. S. architects, many of them were surprised to discover that Wright had been its forerunner 30 years before, that by great European architects such as J. J. P. Oud and Mies van der Rohe he was regarded as a master...
With eight passengers and a copilot, Nick Mamer was flying east in one of Northwest's brand-new Lockheed 143, twin-motored monoplanes whose 225 m. p. h. cruising speed makes them the fastest commercial planes in the world. Weather was not too good and shortly after noon Pilot Mamer dropped down at Butte, Mont, for a scheduled landing, lingered until the skies cleared. Then he drummed away over the mountains toward Billings, Mont. His last report: "Cruising at 9,000 ft. with everything okay...
...Harvard has not yet reached its peak, and should they find themselves against the Tigers, they ought to win by a comfortable margin. If they continue to display the brand of hockey that has characterized their play so far this season, they are in for a busy evening, although a defeat would definitely be considered an upset...
Fresh from its third consecutive triumph in the H.Y.P.D. matches held annually in New York during the Christmas holidays, the Harvard Chess Club looks forward to the New Year with a brand new, more specific constitution and highly original undertakings among its Yardling members...
...half more miles-from 72nd Street to the George Washington Bridge-of the peripheral express highway which will someday ring Manhattan, vastly relieve the pressure of internal and through motor traffic (see map). Open for business last week was another important gateway to the teeming city-the brand-new Lincoln Tunnel nosing under the Hudson River at the west end of 39th Street...