Word: hornbostels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hans George Hornbostel and Gertrude Costenoble took their marriage vows in Guam in 1913. The groom, 32, had spent ten years in the Army, was then a Marine top kick and in top condition. His bride had just shown her fitness by swimming half a mile from the house of her disapproving father to the wedding...
World War I did not separate the couple; neither did Hornbostel's postwar years, spent in antiquarian and ethnological research among the Pacific islands. Where he went, she went. When war came to the Pacific in 1941, the Hornbostels and three grown children were in the Philippines. Hans, at 60, was too old for the Marines, but his experience as a mining engineer commended him to the Army, and he was sworn in as a captain...
...Four University of California trackmen (John Reese, Grover Klemmer, Dick Peter, Clarence Barnes): two-mile relay, feature race of Los Angeles' brand-new Coliseum Relays, in 7 min., 34.5 sec.; breaking by 1.3 sec. the world's record set by a team of U.S. Olympic stars (Hornbostel, Young, Williamson, Woodruff) at London...
...architects were two young Manhattan strugglers who entered the competition late, gave up hope of winning it early. One was big, placid, 31-year-old Richard Marsh Bennett. A month before the competition closed he teamed up with an old friend, short, nervous, 33-year-old Caleb Hornbostel, son of a celebrated Pittsburgh architect, Henry Hornbostel, designer of the Hell Gate Bridge. Physically unlike as partners in a musical comedy team, Hornbostel and Bennett nevertheless had much in common. They studied at the Beaux Arts together, returned to the U. S. at the low point of the Depression, picked...
...Caleb Hornbostel's father, who won more competitions than any U. S. architect of his day, told his son it was easy to win them: "All you do is put in more columns than anybody else." But there are no columns in the Wheaton art centre. What led the judges to decide on Hornbostel and Bennett was the simplicity of their design, one of the most compact in the competition; their understanding of financial, operating and teaching problems. The finished art centre will be fan-shaped, snuggling naturally to the contours of its location. Candidly dissatisfied with the appearance...