Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article on Architect Saarinen was very interesting. [But] what about the accomplishments of Frank Lloyd Wright? A home created by Mr. Wright gives the feeling of shelter and the outdoors. He has incorporated the house as a whole, instead of being chopped up into separate boxes. Through the correct use of the nature of materials, organic simplicity, good structure and no imitation, he has created some of the most beautiful buildings in the world...
Last week, at another by-election in Newport, Monmouthshire, the Tories conducted a campaign designed to correct all the minor faults envisioned at Tonbridge. Big names by the score journeyed down from London to counter local apathy at the polls. The Tory candidate, 39-year old Stockbroker Donald Box, was a local product; his Labor opponent, Sir Frank Soskice, an outsider. The choice between them rested with an electorate whose light Labor majority is well-tempered by a solidly Conservative bloc of prosperous farm owners, shopkeepers and small businessmen. The result: 6,811 fewer voters went to the polls than...
...doctors' round table, New York Hospital Surgeon William F. Nickel Jr. said to Crohn: "One should never [join] small bowel to large bowel . . . without dividing the small bowel, because those patients invariably get into trouble in our experience. Is that yours?" Replied Dr. Crohn: "That is correct...
...circus pictures with a ringmaster's eye for a false move. His latest biographers (husband-and-wife team of Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson, who have also done Gauguin and Van Gogh) have sketched a watercolor rather than a lithograph. But they are at pains to correct the legend fixed in the moviegoing imagination by Actor José Ferrer in Moulin Rouge of pet and amateur pimp to the madams and sporting types of Montmartre. Dwarfed Henri was not a refugee from a name-proud sporting family; he was indeed a proud son of the house of Toulouse, determined...
...rioting had broken out last year in heavily populated Szechwan province, but that it had been put down "effectively." Premier Chou listened impassively to criticisms of the regime he had just asked Formosan Chinese to accept, announced at the close of the congress that everyone "concerned will examine and correct shortcomings and mistakes...