Word: center
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rains let up for a few minutes yesterday afternoon, Lucius N. Littauer '78 patted the cement with a silver trowel to conclude the ceremonies of laying the corner stone for the Littauer Center of Public Administration...
Dean Williams foresees the "Littauer Center growing into a real center for men in the public service whether federal, state, or local, and for men within the social sciences, whatever their particular specialty, who are engaged upon research in broad public problems...
...Board of Overseers inspected the athletic facilities at Soldiers Field yesterday, and listened to a talk by William J. Bingham '16. Today they will look at the Law library, and witness the laying of the corner stone of the Littauer Center...
Finally, Littauer will follow his speech with action, laying the cornerstone with a silver trowel specially inscribed for the occasion. Very little exertion will be required of the donor of the new Littauer Center, however, for a winch and a small derrick will swing the stone into place for the formality...
Longheaded, high-domed Wallace Kirkman Harrison and affable mustached J. (for Jacques) André Fouilhoux were among the architects who planned Rockefeller Center. They share a predilection for economy in architectural form. In evolving their Theme Centre for the Fair they made more than 1,000 sketches before they hit on the ultimate starkness of sphere and pyramidal form. Neither had ever been built before; both would certainly influence other World's Fair architecture to avoid superfluous dressing. And though neither the Sphere nor the symmetrical Trylon alone could serve as a direction-pointing landmark to guide wanderers...