Word: dot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though, they cannot help being aware of the type of architecture he popularized; if they are schoolboys of taste they view it with alarm. No man was ever more betrayed by his imitators. What the trade knew as "Richardsonian Romanesque" are the banks, schools, churches, libraries, jails which still dot the land, built of the knobbiest of rough-cut masonry, with livid tile roofs, arched windows and a profusion of useless squat towers. What his admirers have never ceased to point out is that Richardson himself was very seldom Richardsonian. His best buildings: the Marshall Field Wholesale Store in Chicago...
...preferred. For a 1% fee ($1,000,000), plus a fee of 1% for all bonds not taken by present Great Northern security holders, the bankers would gladly underwrite the issue, thus assuring Mr. Kenney that he would have the money to pay off his maturing bonds on the dot. Considering the state of rail securities, the size of the issue and Great Northern's three-year deficit, the terms did not appear onerous-except to RFChairman Jesse Jones. Mr. Jones noted that on a when-issued basis the proposed bonds were already selling 8% above par. Evidently...
...Argentina to eastern Bolivia. The disputed section is a liver-shaped area bounded by the Paraguay and Pilcomayo Rivers. At the Paraguayan edge it is grassy and open, the soil sandy and dry. Farther west the jungle swamps and lagoons begin, follow the sluggish, unnavigable Pilcomayo to the south, dot the drowned lands to the north. Still farther west, verging into Bolivia's Andean foothills, the land changes again to open woodland, broken by fertile plains. White men's investigation of the Chaco has been resisted by the savage Indians, ihenni flies, carnivorous piranha fish, anacondas, rattlesnakes, jaguars...
...that of Sister Wernera (born Katherine Weidenhöfer) of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in Cologne. Years ago the Sisters of Charity borrowed $100,000 from Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. of St. Louis to complete a nursing hospital in Cologne. On the dot the sisters met installments of their debt, until just $25,000 remained owing by 1935. A Dr. Hofius, good Catholic layman, of the Münster Bank in Westphalia, suggested how this last amount might be paid off. By elaborate code (whenever Mercantile-Commerce was to be mentioned, the nuns used...
Harry S. Broudy 3G, of Milford--the Edwin DoT. Bechtel Prize of $100, open to graduate and undergraduate students in philosophy for an essay on the philosophy of William James, for an essay entitled "The Relation of James's Pluralism to Personal Existence...