Word: design
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, while Frank D. Waterman, nephew of L. E. Waterman, famed fountain pen maker, was being congratulated on having received the Republican nomination for Mayor, an old man sat in a vacant office on Madison Ave. staring at a fountain pen of antique design. He, Warren N. Lancaster, onetime business rival of the famed Waterman, told reporters how luck had undone...
...these improvements conceived on so large a scale and executed so promptly, too much praise can not be given President Lowell and the Planning Board. Not the least noteworthy of their achievements is the harmony of architectural design effected between the new buildings and the finest examples of the old. The errors of Matthews, Weld and Grays are not being repeated. And future generations will thank God that no neo-Gothic monstrosities have been introduced to mar the simple beauty of the colonial type. The expansion of Harvard's plant and equipment is rapidly becoming an accomplished fact, keeping pace...
...design of the ground floor has been improved by the removal of the staircases which in the old building occupied a large amount of floor space. Also the show cases in the centre of the floor have been lowered in order to provide a full view of the store, from all points. Two staircases lead to the basement, one just inside the door. A beautifully appointed English book room provides for the display of fine books...
With the opening of College, the Harvard Cooperative Society announces the completion of its new building which has been erected on its former site. The present home of the Cooperative Society embodies many improvements calculated to increase its usefulness. The new building follows the architectural design of the majority of Harvard buildings, the traditional brick and limestone, and provides facilities for future expansion when needed...
...huge foreign motor car of primitive design, roaring by night through the streets of New Haven informed the inhabitants of that town, some 25 year ago, that Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt was going out for the evening. The same vehicle, roaring back through the dawn, let them know that he would be in for the day. Even at that time the press had begun to refer to him as "Reggie" and to point with horror to his unhallowed pleasures. His classmates, however, voted him "the most likely to succeed in life...