Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obsolete as a dinosaur. The school in which they were enrolled and whose chances appeared excellent of profoundly affecting the habits of U. S. builders had a name exciting to all architects and designers: the New Bauhaus (Building House). Its right to that title was as clear as the glass with which its students will be taught to build, because its director was fresh-faced, ingenious Hungarian Designer Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy, a teacher and leading spirit of the famed Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany, and its chief adviser was Professor Walter Gropius of Harvard, founder of the old Bauhaus...
...Bauhaus but taking in new plastics and new advances in scientific knowledge. After that there will be three years of technical and practical work in any one of six divisions: 1) wood, metal, plastics; 2) textiles; 3) color in decoration; 4) light, photography, typography, cinema; 5) glass, clay, stone; 6) display, staging. A diploma from one of these courses will entitle a student to proceed with two years of architecture. Chicagoans, impressed by Director Moholy-Nagy's long-renowned versatility, energy and pleasant manners, thought the success of his school was a foregone conclusion. Tuition: $335 per year. Eligibility...
...villain of the garden world is an immigrant, the praying mantis, which compares to a bee as a dinosaur would to a man-were the dinosaur 60 feet long with eyes big as plate-glass windows and paws as long as automobiles. The praying mantis, harmless to man, has an insatiable appetite for insects, is willing to fight with anything edible up to cats and dogs-except ants. So voracious is the mantis' appetite for live food that when mating is completed, or sometimes even during mating, the female attacks the smaller male, holds him between powerful pincers, calmly...
...since, vast was its indignation that in a single day in the first battle of the Marne, 287 German shells smashed into the 800-year-old Cathedral of Reims. By 1919 the Cathedral was a shambles, its 400-ton lead roof melted, nearly all of its great stained-glass windows blown out, 24 of its 35 ancient statues wrecked, all its flying buttresses demolished or badly damaged. Altogether the damage amounted to 140,000,000 francs (then $27,000,000). Among benefactors who contributed millions of francs to the restoration of Reims were the late ex-Empress...
...several days and worried bankers set up a day & night watch over it. Meanwhile they were fed by Boston's famed Parker House. One day last week the Parker House again went to the First National's assistance. Ten minutes after closing, workmen set about removing grills, glass desk tops, accounting machines and money from the bank's vaulted granite lobby and into their place went 12,000 glasses, 700 trays, 2,000 qt. of liquor, 3,000 qt. of soda and ginger...