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His plans are flexible; his constant desire to accentuate the natural quality of the material at his disposal gives rise to an unstultified and graceful structure. In his plans for homes, Wright's continued emphasis on the horizontal and rather low-slung design for prairie dwellings is an example of...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

"We have been agreeably surprised that ten weeks have been allotted to us to get into fighting trim," boasted Mr. Churchill. "We are far better prepared to endure the worst malice of Hitler and his Huns than we were at the beginning of September!" If Germany does not choose now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Words for War | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, India's largest native State, rates a 21-gun salute from British batteries and numbers among his many titles that of "Faithful Ally of the British Government." In World War I the Nizam demonstrated his faithfulness by giving four crores* of rupees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Eastern Friends | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Noting resemblances between the first and the second Roosevelt has been the pastime of many a pundit. Along about 1942, equally instructive parallels may perhaps be noted between their successors. To any such exercises, Henry F. Pringle's biography of Taft should be indispensable. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just Man | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

"The art of war is now borrowing from applied science all the resources that are at the latter's disposal, and there is nothing up to velocipedism that is not contributing to the service of the army. . . . In the use of the military bicycle as practised in England, [suppose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deadly Effect | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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