Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dropped. A second trial, this time on charges of second-degree murder, opened in Bartow last fortnight. Following the dictates of the higher court Judge Dewell ruled out all evidence leading up to the time the victims were released at the police station. Thus the prosecution had to build its case on the recollections of the two survivors, Eugene F. Poulnot, head of the Florida Workers' Alliance, and Samuel R. Rogers, a onetime physician who now practices tree surgery...
...astounding amount of physical property to show for its sacrifices. Chimneys had begun to dominate horizons once notable for their church domes. Scores of mammoth new enterprises were erected. A quarter of a million prisoners-a larger number of slaves than the Pharaohs mobilized to build their pyramids, than Peter the Great mobilized to build his new capital-hacked a canal between the White and the Baltic Seas. . . . Two-thirds of the peasantry and four-fifths of the plowed land were 'socialized' -that is, owned and managed by the state-employer as it owned and managed factories...
...which have made that house and houses like it as ugly and obsolete as a dinosaur. The school in which they were enrolled and whose chances appeared excellent of profoundly affecting the habits of U. S. builders had a name exciting to all architects and designers: the New Bauhaus (Building House). Its right to that title was as clear as the glass with which its students will be taught to build, because its director was fresh-faced, ingenious Hungarian Designer Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy, a teacher and leading spirit of the famed Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany, and its chief adviser...
Juiciest bait in President Gates's appeal for funds for a bigger and better University of Pennsylvania is a plan to build a small experimental college and athletic fields in Valley Forge, 22 miles from the noisy city campus on Walnut Street. To start with 50 freshmen, the tiny college I will instruct selected students by the tutorial method mainly in American history, government and English for a fee of about $1,250 a year. Other drive aims: strengthening the faculty, more money for research, more scholarships, new chemistry and library buildings, extension of the museum...
...memories of their pioneers, not many dedicate a day every year to a clergyman, and only one can devote ceremonies to a Roman Catholic priest who was a Congressman. To Detroit, last week brought Gabriel Richard Day, the lyoth anniversary of the birth of a Catholic who helped build the city. Under the chairmanship of Catholic Archbishop Edward Mooney, Michigan's Catholic Governor Frank Murphy and Dr. Joseph Anderson Vance of Detroit's First Presbyterian Church, the day was celebrated with high mass, a parade, a banquet, a speech by onetime Governor Chase Salmon Osborn, author...