Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...styles, which succeed one another much like the ducks in a shooting-gallery. To evolve a philosophy of art history which would give meaning to change and value to accomplishment, often requires that we study phenomena which are not, in the orthodox, artistic at all. How much simpler to build stone walls that make teaching easier though they make learning more difficult. Thus one avoids the charge of being an academic jack-of-all-trades, and remains the specialist behaving as though his field of knowledge existed for its own sake...
...satire of Greek city life, the play tells how two Atheisns, dissatisfied with their city, set out to build a Utopia among the birds. Dreseed in fanciful headdresses and prancing about the stage, the chorus of birds will have an important part in the production...
Admiral William Daniel Leahy let Congress, and the world, know that the U. S. Navy plans to build two 45,000-ton, 880-foot battleships. They will be 10,000 tons heavier, 130 feet longer, and better armed by three guns than any of the six battleships now being built for the U. S. Fleet. They will be bigger even than the two 42,000-tonners which Britain has laid down. And as the President explained at a press conference, Japan is reportedly building three ships of around 42,000 tons, refuses to tell other powers just what size they...
...torpedoes at murderous range. Benito Mussolini's Navy perfected them, used them to good advantage against Loyalist Spain and even showed the way to British mosquito designers (including famed Racer Hubert Scott-Paine). For the price of a 45,000-ton battleship, the U. S. Navy probably could build 750 mosquitoes, as an experiment plans to order four immediately. On the theory that the U. S. probably will never have to fight a naval war at home, Navy men in Washington last week still discounted the value of mosquitoes. But the idea of a little boat snapping...
...third, revolutionary method, Franklin Roosevelt proposed to build a "spillway" into the world market, in which the U. S. "fair share" of cotton trade would be 6,000,000 to 7,000,000 bales a year and in which its 1939 share will be about 3,500,000 bales. To accomplish that he suggested three definite steps...