Word: lawn
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...aspiration." ¶Pictures of a house Wright built in Phoenix last year for one of his sons. Made of concrete blocks, it looks like a snail shell somewhat flattened and supported on stilts. Says Wright: "It is in a citrus-orchard district and the orange trees make the lawn for the house. The slowly rising ramp reveals the surrounding mountains and gives security to the occupants...
Pusey will be the guest of honor at a banquet of the Yale University Council at the New Haven Lawn Club on Friday, November 20. Banquet speakers will include Griswold, Judge Charles E. Wyzanski '27, president of the Board of Overseers and former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, a Fellow of the Yale Corporation. Frank D. Ashburn, headmaster of the Brooks School and president of the Yale University Council, will preside at the banquet...
Less than ten years ago, the district, near the sluggish Harlem River, was a dreary wasteland of filthy, overcrowded brick-and-stone tenements. Today dozens of blocks of them have been torn out and in their places stand two big, modern apartment projects whose high sunbathed and lawn-bordered buildings have given their Negro tenants a bright new standard and concept of living. Seventy-five percent of P.S. 133's Negro pupils (95% of its enrollment) come from the two big projects-25% are from one jammed block of dreary "old-law tenements." It is difficult to distinguish between...
...however, saw newspaper photographs of the sculpture and protested. The nude bronze figure was a far cry from the sunbonneted frontierswoman they had envisioned. Said a Salem housewife: "I would have a difficult time explaining to my young children why we would have a heathen goddess on our courthouse lawn and why she doesn't wear clothes." Result: the committee responsible for the selection withdrew their Venus before she even got to town...
...lawn by the White House rose garden, the President was at his spontaneous best. Members of the U.S. Committee for United Nations Day stood hushed as they heard his simple avowal of faith in the U.N.: "Where every new invention . . . seems to make it more nearly possible for man to insure his own elimination from this globe, I think the United Nations has become sheer necessity...