Word: georgians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building triumphs. It resulted from the combined efforts of an unknown road builder, architect and artist named John Wood and his son John Wood Jr., who had taken over the cramped, run-down town of Bath, site of an ancient Roman spa, and rebuilt it into a showpiece of Georgian architecture and a prime example of unified English town planning. The younger Wood's supreme gambit was to take one elliptical segment of the oval form that Bernini used for St. Peter's Square, and throw it boldly along the city's outskirts, with an open prospect...
...Publisher Cox took on what he called "my largest enterprise," by paying $3,500,000 for the Atlanta evening Journal and its rival, the Georgian, on which Hearst had lost $10 million in 27 years. Merging the two papers, Cox successfully battled "the dangerous and disgraceful regime" of Governor Eugene Talmadge. He was 79 when he bought Atlanta's other daily, the morning Constitution. Asked, like Lewis Carroll's Father William, how he did so much at his age, Cox replied: "Running water never grows stagnant...
...President Lowell, would head Lowell House; Greenough, an English professor, would head Dunster. Out of disgust for the group's recent plans, and to avoid any confusing of duties, Coolidge resigned his membership in the Watch and Ward Society the "arbitrators of citizens' morals." The Houses would be Georgian in design, the dining halls would not have student waiters as the Union had, and, although there would be a separate table for the tutorial staff, they would be expected to dine with the students much of the time. Architect's drawings of the sprawling Dunster and the imposing Lowell, were...
...pleasant interlude. He spent hours playing with his 13-month-old grandson Paul Summers (his daughter Jill is married to a third-year law student at the university). He also toured nearby Civil War battlefields in a battered station wagon. He and his wife lived in a Georgian house just a 15-minute walk from the rolling campus that Thomas Jefferson picked for the university he designed and started to build. Normally shy, Faulkner delighted school officials by accepting outside speaking invitations...
...official procession, followed by President Pusey and accompanied by various Deans of Harvard College, followed the steed into the diminutive Georgian building where the official dedication ceremonies took place...