Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Gore Hall and Unit No. 2 on a triangular lot on the Boston idea of Mckinlock Hall, bordering on the river. Unit No. 1 will be in the form of a double quadrangle, architecturally much like an enlarged and reduplicated duplicated Smith Halls with a towe over the main entrance. Unit No. 1 will bear more resemblance in style the present Standish Hall. In that the courtyard will open on the river. It will be higher, over twice as large a Standish, however, and there will be two subsidiary courts or gardens of each side of the main...
Last year the Foundation spent $21,690,738. Of that, $12,000,000 went as endowment for the New China Medical Board. To the China Medical Board also went the land, buildings and equipment of the Rockefeller-created Peking Union Medical College, one of China's main medical centres. To make the Chinese believe that the Rockefellers meant the China Medical Board to be nationalistic, Chinese have been placed in control of its board of trustees, which is to perpetuate itself...
...Following one such evidence last November (TIME, Nov. 12) in announcement that Pennsylvania Railroad would spend $100,000,000 in electrification, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad last week announced that it would electrify 173 miles of track over 78 miles of road. Electrification will not include Lackawanna's main Buffalo-Manhattan line but will be confined to short branch lines, particularly the Morris & Essex division from Hoboken to Dover...
...story is in the main a common one. The young struggling actor, born in the middle west, struggles up from a position of practical starvation to the top rung in the movie world. Throughout the whole narration one is struck with the romance of his life. Hart surely saw life through colored glasses and lived it as he saw it. He has retained to the present time that same feeling that makes a small boy delight in the circus, and a great deal of the charm of the volume is due to this fact...
...filling two panels of rather difficult shapes with symbolic compositions, when no definite subjects were suggested to the artists, required the highest order of imaginative creation. Though individuals may criticize details of the composition and symbolism, none can deny that the artist has been extremely successful in his main purpose, which was to produce a great decorative composition aptly conceived and executed from the point of view of architectural setting.Death and Victory--By John Singer Sargent...