Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spent on a multitude of courses which are planned to give him facility in drawing, painting, sketching, in the fundamentals of design, and in architectural construction, and in the use of building materials. Above all, he must learn to draw, and draw. So, too, must be have a firm background of history of architecture and the forces of civilization which forged the different styles and periods. Finally, architectural elements and motives flow easily from his hand, his imagination conceives and his mind and hand realizes these conceptions, while his drawings and engineering faculties weave them into buildings. He has, then...
...engaged in teaching military science in schools and colleges and that it is far from their purpose to inculcate in pupils lust for war. It knows that members of the War Department and Army officers who advocate compulsory military training for all boys do so from the firm conviction that this is the best way to keep our country out of war. Here, in other words, is a question of policy on which honest people differ...
...chatauqua platform without bothering political compeers. But Borah, now so much of a figure in the Senate, cannot enter New York politics without prudence; and prudence rather devitalizes a crusader. One is inclined to believe that Mr. Borah will value his independent reputation in the Senate, as the firm and incorruptible, to the uncertain glamour of an approach to evangelism...
This is a bit of cowardice of which the rightful denizez of this lair would not approve, for I am sure he is a firm believer in standing up for his lack of principles. Principles are like ginger-ale, the paper the better...
Only a few months ago Herr Schwarz' firm, the U. F. A., one of the largest German cinema producers, was publicly censured by the S. P. C. A. for permitting one of its directors to have the jaws of several crocodiles tied shut and the animals starved in this condition in the presence of food until they became ravenous. The denouement was the filming of a scene in which "a dummy made of meat" was thrown to the crocodiles...