Word: canale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little pictures of the White Church of Arequipa, Peru, and the Churches of Cuautla in Mexico are fresh and charming, and the Canal View done in Venice recalls Corot's sketches of Rome. The Boy Reading and the Musicians suggest the full chi, aroscuro method of Velasquez. There is an interesting and spirited copy of the Olivarez of Velasquez. To emphasize Dr. Ross' relation to the great masters is certainly not to deny his originality but rather to praise his achievements which are rooted in a study of the best precedents of the past...
Included in the gift to the Business School are several pieces of hardware taken from Massachusetts Hall when more modern equipment was installed. One of the carpenter's planes, judging from the inscription burned on its side, was used during the construction of the Middlesex Canal from Boston to Lowell about...
...Jersey Cities formally opened the 9,250-ft. Holland vehicular tunnel connecting them under the Hudson River (TiME, Aug. 30, 1926). Aboard the yacht Mayflower, midstream in the Potomac, the President pressed the same gold telegraph key which President Wilson pressed in 1914 to blast open the Panama Canal. At the Coolidge touch, U. S. flags fell away from the ends of the Holland tubes. Officials of New Jersey streamed underground into New York and vice versa, followed in the first hour by 20,000 common citizens...
...Missouri Plan of flood control. This plan provided for: a) five commissioners appointed by the President to govern flood control, navigation and conservation in the Mississippi Basin; b) appropriations of $100,000,000 per annum for ten years; c) a bond issue, such as built the Panama Canal and the Alaska Railway...
When the first financial scandal burst in 1892 De Lesseps was convicted of misappropriating money. Fifty million pounds sterling had vanished. Sentence was later remitted because he had only too sanguinely desired to repeat the triumph he had achieved for France in building the Suez Canal in Egypt...