Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accept this treaty, so drawn as to make good political capital in the U. S. by giving the impression that a Coolidge victory had been won at Geneva; 3) The essence of this subterfuge to be twofold: a) That the U. S. and Britain should each be allowed to build 600,000 tons of cruisers (that is to say, a great many more than a pacific, pinch-penny U. S. Congress would ever authorize); and b) That all cruisers should be of 7,500 tons (which would suffice Great Britain, because she has naval bases for these small boats throughout...
...Competition Board's contest for the best dirigible design. The Board, headed by Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, has recommended that the contract for constructing the ship be also given to the Goodyear company, and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur has approved the recommendation. Should the Goodyear company build the ship, it cannot collect the $50,000 for the design, a stipulation of the contest being that if the company submitting the winning design also should be given the job of building the ship, it could not collect the prize-money. Inasmuch as the dirigible will cost...
...Amalie Luise (1776-1810) is chiefly famed because of her personal appeal to Napoleon at his camp in Tilsit after the battle of Jena (1806). She begged him to have mercy upon Prussia, but was only partially successful in obtaining certain concessions which enabled the Prussian army eventually to build up its strength...
...better placed. Under Carolus Duran, dutiful young John Sargent so "persevered in the Pine Arts" that he had no time for Parisian gaiety. In a negligee Bohemia his dress remained correct. Amid fads and fashions ornate, voluptuous, bizarre, he followed only Frans Hals and Velasquez. He learned, thoroughly, to build on true middle values, to accent with strictest simplicity...
...attention of a restless, primitive Spanish model (Dancer Carmencita), painted his nose red and ate his cigar, he had ingenuity, humor. An erect, burly, bearded man who waited days to cool off before thrashing an abusive farmer, _ he was gentle, temperate, poised, just. A portraitist who could block out, build up, polish and accent an oil masterpiece in one sitting, with never any weak "teasing up" or dishonest glossing over, he had the disciplined intensity of genius truly great...