Word: designs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mlle. Lenglen and Helen Wills is probably the difference between their thyroid glands. Suzanne Lenglen is a prima donna. Every stroke, to her, is an emergency which she must meet in some sensational manner. Helen Wills goes about the business of tennis as calmly as an etcher making a design. The Frenchwoman cannot play unless people are watching...
...Corporation and had plans drawn for a magnificent 55 story hotel. Then they went to bankers to negotiate a loan. The bankers promised to furnish $16,000,000 but wished certain changes made in the plans. They thought that 13 stories should be lopped off the design and some of the splendor eliminated. So plans for a 42 story hotel were prepared. Then for an unpublished reason the members of the syndicate fell out with one another...
...following comment on Harvard architecture--in particular on the proposed design for a new chapel--is an excerpt from an article entitled "Old Harvard Dresses For the Future" by H. I. Brock in the New York Times Magazine of June...
...another, heads tilted back and eyes shut tight for the roaring refrain. Thus, when the Lord Jeffrey Inn was opened with ceremony last week at Amherst, Mass., college men everywhere pricked up their ears, hearing fond echoes in the very name. The inn, of an old English design, facing the village green, was not a part of the Amherst college plant, but Amherst alumni thronged to join the celebration. President George Daniel Olds of Amherst made a speech. President Harry A. Garfield had come over from Williams College and he made another speech. Mr. George A. Plimpton, senior trustee...
...many subjects taught in the School of Architecture, the most important must always be Design. Excellence in Design is the aim for life if every great architect and the School must try its best to give him the soundest fundamentals of the theory and practiced of design. With this, however, must go a sound course in Construction. Without