Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matters of the law. And so far has this historic policy gone that one denomination of Mennonites is distinguished from all others by the fact that it thinks wearing buttons wrong and wears hooks and eyes instead. "Against this policy of Protestantism we have taken our stand. We have built an inclusive church...
...life to Gothic. The austerity, the rigor, mocking yet exalting man's puny bones, the grace soaring beyond thought-these he served. He is almost solely responsible for the revival of Gothic in the U. S., now seen in innumerable college buildings, churches, cathedrals, offices, country houses. He built the chapel at West Point, the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, the Russell Sage Memorial at Far Rockaway, N. Y., the permanent buildings of the Panama Exposition. Over 50, he entered a competition for the Nebraska Capitol, won it, but overworked, fell ill. A great ceremony was planned...
...Goodhue. He was represented by his design of St. Thomas's Church, Manhattan. "Not surpassed by the best work of the Middle Ages," critics have said of this building. "The great reredos at Winchester does not sing in greater ecstasy than the marble symphony which he has built in the chancel of St. Thomas...
...means, make an excursion to Torcello while you are in Venice," he continued. "Torcello is situated on a little group of islands not far away. It is like Venice as a village, a rural Venice, a Venice not built up, as Venice is today, so that you can't see the canal from the house-tops...
...Another little excursion easily made from Venice is the walk to Gandria, a quaint little village on a steep slope. It is reached by a beautiful path along the shore called the Via Teodoro, after the man who built...