Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...payment for 47 acres of cotton destroyed. Spotting a cotton stalk in Farmer Morris' left hand, the President declared: "That cotton looks better than that which we raise down in Georgia." ¶President Roosevelt approved a special N R A 3? postage stamp to be issued Aug. 15. Design: a farmer, a business man, a factory worker and a woman "walking hand in hand in a common determination.'' ¶A start on the great Columbia River Basin project was assured when the President approved construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington out of public works funds...
...Joseph Freedlander and Ely Kahn, awarded George Frei Jr. the two-and-a-half year Paris scholarship of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects for a project to house a National Banking Board in a monumental group of buildings in Washington. No modernist, Architect Frei's buildings were designed in what he called "modified classicism," a style which seems to consist in substituting plain bands of stone for the traditional classic entablatures. Still Architect Frei believes architecture should be timely, said his winning design was "fun to work on because it bore a definite relation to the actual trend...
Anthony Adverse is a three-decker, picaresque-historical novel, crammed with enough people, action, scenery, philosophy, comedy, bloodshed, love and death to furnish a dozen books. Built to an old-fashioned design but modern specifications, it starts off like a Waverley Novel, soon gets beyond the purport of its traditional beginning. Like Tristram Shandy's, its hero makes a belated appearance, but when he does his fortunes hold the unwieldy tale together. In following him, however, the story loses track of some promising minor characters whose disappearance is disappointing, whose reappearance is sometimes anticlimactic. From France to Italy...
...members from many lands met in Boston for the annual meeting of the Mother Church, of most interest to them was the new, nearly completed Christian Science publishing house, a $4,000,000 edifice for which 47 Back Bay structures were razed. Built of limestone, heavily classical in design, like some sort of government building, it is to be a showplace like the adjacent, domed Mother Church. Last week Publishing Society officials were pleased to announce that no more contributions would be needed after July. The Monitor is already being partly printed in the new home...
Since the S-51, the pontoon design was radically changed and the pontoons used on the 54, in no sense similar to the originals on the F4, proved easy to handle and are now the Navy standard...