Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John quotes a passage from Viollet-le-Duc which well describes Frank Lloyd Wright's ambition, and to a considerable extent, his achievement. Wrote Viollet-le-Duc: "The leaf of a shrub, a flower, an insect-all have style; because they grow, are developed, and maintain their existence according to laws essentially logical. We can subtract nothing from a flower, for each part of its organism expresses a function. . . . Proceed as nature does in her works, and you will be able to invest with style all that your brain conceives...
Last week Roback published the Albert Schweitzer Jubilee Book in a limited edition of 1,050 copies. It included essays by Roback and 22 other scholars, many of them topflight,* who largely share Roback's admiration-though not to his worshipful extent-for Albert Schweitzer...
...inevitable that tutorial, a most tiring and time consuming from of instruction, most suffer o some extent as way" the Committee reported, referring to the depleted staff, the three torn year, and the present "tremendous" influx of students. It was prided out, however, that extensive tutorial restriction in nine departments are "presumably not necessitated by the present emergency...
With Brazilians, Perón was said to have this understanding: they would support him in Inter-American circles just to the extent that he threatened continental security. Brazil would then continue to get help from the U.S. to combat the Argentine threat...
...that if he was a polygamist, if he was responsible for the alleged document on polygamy. . . which we do not believe and which we emphatically deny, then he broke both the law of God and the laws of the land, and to that extent was a "fallen" prophet...