Search Details

Word: buildings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...particular, $120,000 of the gift will be used to build four gallery courts in the Linden Street building, with each pair of courts having a gallery capacity of about 300 persons. This will remedy one of the major difficulties with Harvard squash, for at present only about 30 or 40 people can comfortably watch a match in Hemenway Gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Palmer Dixon Gives Funds to Squash, Tennis | 2/6/1959 | See Source »

...writing Ways & Means Committee, co-protector with Appropriations of the House's constitutional power to originate all money bills. Son of a small-town banker. Mills lives in Kensett, which by legend got its name when natives told Missouri Pacific surveyors, trying to decide where to build a station: "You ken set it hyar or you ken set it thar." Since 1939 he has represented the hill-and-dale Second District, which also boasts such place names as Morning Sun, Evening Shade and Oil Trough. Stocky (5 ft. 8 in., 180 Ibs.), gracious Wilbur Mills has a first-rate fiscal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: I Love This House | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...rose in West Africa a kingdom of warlike tribes that came to be known as the Empire of the Mali (rhymes with Bali). Among its greatest rulers was a crippled boy named Sundiata Keita, who survived the murder of his eleven brothers and ascended the throne in 1230, to build a realm that was eventually to cover what is now Guinea, Senegal, the French Sudan and Ghana. Last week one of Sundiata's descendants, the Sudan's Modibo Keita, was in Dakar, capital of Senegal, as one of the architects of a modern revival of the old empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALI: Four for Togetherness | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Mies put his principles into classic but temporary form at the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition with his German Pavilion, a building that proved to be one of the most influential structures of modern times. But for a long time Mies found no time or opportunity to build a permanent museum. His opportunity came when Nina Cullinan, daughter of Texas Oilman Joseph Stephen Cullinan, offered the Houston Museum of Fine Arts $625,000 to build a new wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Big Room | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...English Electric's. ODCM Chief Leo Hoegh got around that by arguing that a contract award to B.L.H. was necessary for clear reasons of "national security." He said the U.S. needed to maintain and keep in good working order the huge machine tools, called "elephant tools," used to build the turbines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: What Price Security? | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Previous | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | Next