Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frightened many of the most farseeing. For in its widest implication the Dymaxion house is rather a frightening phenomenon. It threatens the architectural aesthetic round on an accumulative tradition, of Roman, Romanesque and Renaissance design. It dispenses with contracting engineers, with servants, with such domestic appendages as laundries, custom built furniture, electric light bulbs, carpets. It threatens the present economic system of centralized control of natural resources. It may mean the dissolution of the suburbs, the population of seemingly inaccessible parts of the earth. Personal independence of drudgery, allowance for a doubled leisure, a more civilized manner of existence...
...buildings look settled. This winter, however, it was decided that the old crooked streets of Seville were not wide enough for the large expensive automobiles of expected tourists, Seville's hotel accommodations were insufficient. Old blocks were ruthlessly torn down, new streets hastily laid out, new hotels built. Andalusian Seville of Washington Irving and the Giralda Tower were hastily awakened. Like anyone just awakened from a long sleep, Seville last week was tousled but cheerful...
...Freeland is owned by Walter J. Salmon, the realtor who built Manhattan's Salmon Tower. The Salmon silks are salmon pink. As winner of the Preakness, Mr. Salmon was presented by Gov. Ritchie with the bulky Woodlawn Vase won last year by Harry Payne Whitney's Victorian. Horseman Salmon touched the cup but did not take it away. It is customary to leave it at Pimlico. Mr. Salmon also received $53>325> which he pocketed...
...well-knit and has good endurance, but his stroking is too short and too erratic to be all that is desired in a good stroke man. Watts, on the other hand, is long in the water and rows a smooth, steady stroke, but is too lanky and light-built to have the reserve power at the finish of a race which is necessary for a good stroke oar when it comes to driving a boatload of oarsmen...
...Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory and the T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., Memorial Laboratory were built. They afforded excellent facilities for certain advance courses in chemistry and for the prosecution of research, and still do so. They did not, however, appreciably lessen the great overcrowding in Boylston Hall. Indeed, the conditions in this building, never designed primarily for a chemical laboratory, with little or no ventilation and with antique equipment, became well-nigh intolerable...