Word: construction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...banks are lined with great pink-tinted palazzi, decorated with balconies and frills of cake-icing beauty and delicacy. Last week Venetians and Venice-lovers were engaged in a heated esthetic and sentimental wrangle with the advocates of progress and modern architecture. The issue: a proposal to construct a house designed by U.S. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright on a curve of the Grand Canal...
Presently, the chief occupation of both groups is the, fight against a bridge which the District of Columbia wants to construct across Potomac. The bridge would be built partially upon Theodore Roosevelt Island, a muddy islet in the Potomas named in Roosevelt's honor by Congress, and the associations are against its disfiguration. The associations also have continued to support the collection at Widener with a yearly subsidy and jointly make an annual award of the Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal...
...have been able to absorb this increased demand," he explained, "but if the rate continues, it might be necessary to construct additions to the dormitory system." At present, there are only a few of the 470 housing units left unoccupied in Richards and James Halls, bufit three years...
Last week, in a momentous Chicago speech, AEC Commissioner Thomas E. Murray declared that the iron age of atomic energy may soon end. "The commission," said Murray, "has embarked on a program to construct a full-scale power reactor . . . We hope to have it in operation in three to four years...
...long-plagued by the seating shortage for games with big opponents like Yale, the College decided to construct the country's first football stadium. As the huge structure, capable of seating nearly 40,000 persons, arose tier by tier across the Charles River, the rest of the football world began to take keen note...