Word: interpretations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...survey made in these lectures is a guide to work and contemplation. It aims toward giving perspective. It gives a sane and modest view of man's place in the scheme. But in addition to giving a comprehensive view, the classification serves to interpret some phases of the sidereal universe in a clearer form than before...
...campaigners are using mass meetings, the press, the radio and school teachers to recommend that each person in the community be physically examined at least once a year. Preferably his personal physician should do the work. If an institution examines him, his personal physician should get the information, should interpret the findings and tell the patient that he is healthy, that he should do so-and-so to prevent disease, or to cure affliction...
Abraham Lincoln was written by John Drinkwater to interpret its hero for the English. Thousands of U. S. citizens saw it in Manhattan a decade ago, many went two and three times. Frank McGlynn still looks like Lincoln, makes him a compassionate and credible figure from his rustic days at law until the dark moment when John Wilkes Booth creeps toward the door of the red-plush Presidential...
...that the frontier football spirit will ricochet back to the Eastern seaboard is not so much the belief of intelligent students of the game, as that the Eastern attitude may soon go West. The trail has already been blazed, and while older institutions of higher learning continue to rigidly interpret the amateur code for the hopeful edification of their erring brothers, an amazingly human populace insists on taking its education and its play in equal proportions. Yale News
...basic philosophies of his buildings are: 1) They, especially homes, should be constructed as integral parts of their landscapes and of the materials of the neighborhood. His thrice-built home at Spring Green seemed a rocky outcropping of the hill itself. 2) Buildings (factories, theatres, hotels) should interpret the spirit as well as suit the use of their occupancies. This has created blocky, mechanistic, "modernistic" structures. His most representative factory building is that of the Larkin Co. at Buffalo; his best hotel the Imperial at Tokyo, famed for octagonal copper bathtubs and "skyscraper" furniture. People for whom he builds homes...