Word: cranes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Corbu was all set to go after only one week on the site. He started building with nothing more than half a dozen concrete mixers and one crane. Says British Architect Maxwell Fry, who helped with the job: "We had 20,000 women and children, oxen and donkeys by the thousand. We got the big concrete structures up with a mess of cockeyed scaffolding. We really built it like the Pyramids...
...mmunity -- with Cambridge and oston. The importance of strong es with the locality cannot be eremphasized, esepcially in matrs concerning expansion and the nduct of students in the college ea. At present only two members the City Council are Harvard aduates (Joseph A. DeGuglielmo and Mayor Edward A. Crane ); the number of Harvard-conected members of the State Legisture has dropped from 55 per cent 1929 to 20 per cent...
...students from secondary schools throughout the city sat in as counterparts for city officials, Mayor Edward Crane '25 and student mayor Robert of Rindge Technical High school each had to rule on motions concerning the recent "diploma" riots the College...
Lewis Mumford has probably staked out as good a claim as any to being the U.S.'s leading critic of its cities, towns and cultural highways and byways. In the 1920s, when Van Wyck Brooks was discovering the unrecognized richness of the U.S. literary past and Poet Hart Crane was apotheosizing the Brooklyn Bridge, Mumford's Sticks and Stones, A Study of American Architecture and Civilization was the first, brash exploration of American town planning and building, ranging from the New England Common to the glories of Bridge Builder John A. Roebling. Mumford's fresh...
...against the election-year were Councilors John D. Lynch, T. Trodden, Thomas N. , and Alfred E. Vellucci. In were Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 Councilors Joseph A. DeGuglielmo Pearl K. Wise, and Cornelia...