Word: designs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Club supplies the dozen-odd members of the College's ski team, which competes for the Crimson both officially and unofficially, Cabot said. Races are under the direction of William Halsey, a veteran of the Dartmouth ski team before entering the Graduate School of Design...
...felt that it was the job of ours and the next following generation to make true the promise of the [industrial] revolution . . . the promise of a general exodus from our metropolitan slums, from rural hovels and, in short, from the pre-industrial standards of living and housing. . . . Whatever we design today . . . has its true contemporary significance only if it does not aim at uniqueness but an applicability for [mass] production...
...often gets up in the pre-dawn blackness of 4 a.m. to blue-print his ideas. He will travel anywhere to make sure his buildings fit the landscape, the people and the weather. Last week he got set for a long journey; he had just accepted a commission to design a string of hotels and hospitals for the princely Deccan States, India...
...Union stands the President's House. Emerson, Sever, and Boylston Halls are used for classes, Robinson and Hunt Halls contain the School of Design. Other important buildings are Phillips Brooks House and Wadsworth House...
...killed herself, with potassium cyanide. Says Editor Cater: "From this calamity Henry Adams was never to recover. . . . He was, in spite of his reserved self-possession, an emotional man. . . . [Thereafter] he never mentioned Marian's name, except on extremely rare occasions." Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens was asked to design, a memorial for her grave.* Adams tried to lose himself in the writing of his monumental History of the United States during the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison, and in a series of jaunts to the most outlandish parts of the world he could find...