Word: leverence
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...from Europe in the forceful form of works by Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, he belabored these men as "glassic architects" and worse. He dramatically ranged himself against the sweeping tide of .the International Style. Manhattan's United Nations Secretariat was a "tombstone," Lever House "a waste of space," the Seagram Building "a whisky bottle on a card table." The steel-cage frame was "19th century carpenter architecture already suffering from arthritis of the joints." Boxy modern houses he called "coffins for living...
...College admission requirements may have some influence, good or bad, on the secondary schools, but the Admissions Committee doubts that Harvard's requirements can be a proper or effective lever for high school reform," Bender stated...
...slots, the process was called "spooning," and it had nothing whatever to do with June or moon. A spooner would simply slip the handle of a tablespoon into the coin-return opening, wedge open the little trap door, insert his coin in the slot, and pull the lever. Down through the trap door would fall the take. One imaginative cheater was caught using a fine homemade machine tool with detachable heads, one each for nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar and dollar slots...
...shocked to find out how few Harvard students thought about business as a career," commented Jervis J. Babb MBA '24, former President of Lever Brothers Company. Babb delivered the final evening lecture of the 1959 Career Conferences last night at Leverett...
Jervis Jefferis Babb, former president and director of Lever Brothers Company, will be the final speaker on the Office of Student Placement's series of evening talks on career possibilities tonight at 8 p.m. in the Leverett Common Room...