Word: designs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students won Prix de Rome scholarships, in painting and sculpture (TIME, May 16). Last week the Prix de Rome judges decided the 1927 competition in architecture and again the winner was a Yale student-Homer Fay Pfeiffer of Kansas City, Kan., graduate of the University of Illinois. For his design of a small-city art museum, Mr. Pfeiffer can now spend three years at the American Academy in Rome with all expenses (about $7,000) paid...
...Insull announced that already the opera's business manager and the technical director, and also Architect Ernest Robert Graham (who has been building Greater Chicago since World's Fair days) were headed for Europe to study the last words in opera-house design. And he promised the new auditorium, fully equipped and staffed to amuse 4,000 Chicagoans nightly, for about Christmas time...
...Then how marvelously is our excitement assuaged without being allowed to die out entirely! The valleys, tablelands, and mountain peaks have the same convincing symmetry as nature herself. Edward Elgar, the eminent English composer, well says, "A modern composer, while listening to the C Minor Symphony or studying its design, feels as humble as a travelling tinker standing before that marvel of engineering skill, the bridge over the Firth of Forth...
Wendell Phillips' phrase, about John Brown having "letters of marque from God," accurately describes the religious zealot who conducted midnight reprisals of lives and livestock against the proponents of slavery in "Bloody Kansas" and who, in 1858, withdrew to Canada to formulate a design as unusual as it was drastic...
...plate unearthed Friday derives more than an antiquarian interest from the fact that the border designs found on it are to bet transmitted to the new University plate, on the design for which Assistant Professor Conant was already it work at the time of the recent discovery. The projected plate will have no specific use but it is expected that it will be adopted in a larger number of Harvard Clubs and will probably be used in the University dining hall if one is constructed next year...