Word: followed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acknowledged shrine of modern architecture was the famed Bauhaus school in Dessau, Germany, and Architect Walter Gropius was its high priest. The boxy building with flat roofs and ribbon-glass windows that Gropius built there in 1926 laid down the line architecture was to follow for the next three decades. An exile from Hitler's Germany, Gropius introduced his methods as chairman of Harvard's department of architecture, revolutionized architecture in the U.S., became so firmly planted in architectural history that people were sometimes amazed to find him still a part of the present...
...SHIRT PRICES will be boosted about 6% next month by Manhattan Shirt Co. on big-volume, $4 shirts. Other major makers are expected to follow move in industry's first major price boost on brand-name, medium-priced dress shirts since...
While the new uses of aluminum will bring record production and sales this year, it is unlikely that earnings will follow-even though the stocks of aluminum companies have hopefully risen to the year's high. Producers say that the price of aluminum at 24.7?a Ib. is too low. Although a price rise is expected later this year, it will not come until the steel industry contracts are signed, since aluminum traditionally follows the labor patterns set by steel. For the long range, makers hope to increase demand not only at home but by developing world markets...
...estimates that operating cost of the Chicago plant will be $12 to $15 per ton of sludge v. $45 per ton for older methods. Sterling does not expect to make much of a profit on the Chicago plant, but hopes it will prove so successful that other cities will follow. Says Sterling's Chairman James Hill Jr.: "When people see how well these plants work, we will be turning them out like bags of cereal...
...epigraphs can be embarrassing, especially if they are better than the prose that follows. Busch rashly prefaces a chapter that deals with a child's illegitimacy with Ring Lardner's grand old gag about the bumpkin who remarks, on learning that his friend was born out of wedlock, "That's mighty pretty country around there." Lardner's act is hard to follow, and by comparison, Busch's novel is as solemn as a convocation of bishops. Its most egregious epigraphy comes before the climactic scene. The book's central figure, a bombastic newspaper publisher...