Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnson Administration Building has been built like an expensive watch on what Architect Wright calls a "unit plan," everything fitting into a horizontal scheme of 20-ft. squares, a vertical scheme of 3½- in. brick units. The Johnson Building is the first sizable structure Wright has had a chance to build since the Imperial Hotel, and it ranks with that masterpiece as an engineering feat. Wright's plans for it set the Wisconsin State Industrial Commission on its ear. The columns by which the architect proposed to support his building were neither pillars nor posts but tall stem...
...legislation in the economic interest of their section or class. A few miles from the parental household in Connecticut the younger branch of the Beard historical menage-Daughter Miriam, her husband Dr. Vagts and their precocious eight-year-old son Detlev- live in even greater retirement in a new brick house that has an electric dishwashing machine, but also no radio, no telephone. When Miriam Beard and Alfred Vagts were married, Vagts, who had been a German officer during the War, was a professor in Berlin, where they lived until shortly before Hitler came into power. A good cook...
...brick-walled room that was once a foundry, seated on 65 folding chairs, the audience applauded a modern version of an old story of incest and parricide. The same story, dramatized by Sophocles and called Oedipus Rex, moved an audience in Athens over 2,300 years ago. Sophocles' tale of the great and virtuous king, who learns within one tense hour that he is unwittingly guilty of two hideous crimes, has never been surpassed for suspense and horror, is considered one of the world's neatest jobs of play construction. In The Infernal Machine Playwright Cocteau has kept...
Once a year the bronzed brick building known to Manhattanites as the Metropolitan Opera House has its one big social night, the opening of the Opera Season. The occasion is a sort of public festival for those who love music and for those who like to see and be part of the show. So last week the Metropolitan filled again with bulging dowagers and stuffed shirts, music lovers, some in white ties, others in frayed collars, stridulous debutantes with glassy-eyed escorts, and a great dun horde which prides itself on loving music more than show but nonetheless selects...
Oldest anatomical research institute in the U. S., the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology is housed in a yellow brick, old-fashioned but scrupulously clean building in West Philadelphia. From the rumbling presses in its basement pours a stream of weighty periodicals: Journal of Morphology, Journal of Comparative Neurology, Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, Journal of Nutrition, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, five others. These make dismal and mostly incomprehensible reading for laymen, but publication is the lifeblood of science and the specialists who read the Wistar publications understand and appreciate them...