Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott, commonly known in Cambridge circles as "the University architects", is busy completing the plans of the new Faculty Club. It is rumored that the new social center for Harvard's teaching staff will cost over $300,000. Although it is not certain how this money will be raised it has been said that the University would defray the expenses...
...Frenchman,* Pierre Charles L'Enfant, to blue-pencil the streets and domes that lobbyists and starlings (see p. 50) would later infest. Just so, last week, the Supreme Economic Council of Soviet Russia, represented by Amtorg Trading Corp. in Manhattan, signed contracts to retain, the Detroit architectural firm of Albert Kahn, Inc., as consulting architects for two years of Russia's famed five-year industrialization program which calls for the expenditure...
...Midnight passed. She twitched, shuddered and looked at him with piteous brown eyes. He could not go to bed. When dawn came and then day, he could hardly eat his breakfast-with the old dog perhaps dying. "Hrrm, may I remind Your Lordship," ventured the Russells' sympathetic but firm butler, "that Your...
...Boston harbor. Mr. Cobb went to Boston Latin School, then to Phillips-Andover (class of 1891). He first worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, then with Grand Rapids Gas Co. He went to Manhattan in 1905, worked for Hodenpyl, Wallbridge & Co. and in 1911 helped organize Hodenpyl, Hardy, the successor firm. In 1928, when Hodenpyl. Hardy was acquired by Allied Power & Light, Mr. Cobb became Allied's chairman. He is also president of Commonwealth Power and Penn Ohio Edison, and a director of American Super power...
...report contained even the suggestion of a measure to make the purchaser of liquors equally culpable with the purveyor, the argument would have been raised from its present obscurity of details to a firm basis of fundamentals. If public opinion should support such an enactment despite its flavor of tyranny, it would show itself definitely committed to Prohibition at any cost, but if it is rejected, a drastic revision of the law itself is the only logical recourse...