Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand. In California, Texas, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pennsylvania superb new buildings have grown from his plans. Last week the significance to modern architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright's new buildings was recognized in an issue of THE ARCHITECTURAL FORUM which broke all precedents for that magazine. Its main body of 102 pages, Lid out and written by Architect Wright, was an album of his work, an anthology of sturdy quotations from Thoreau and Whitman, and a compendium of Weight's building philosophy...
These "dendriform" columns, growing from the floor and increasing the spaciousness of the floor level, were made possible by a distribution of stresses through concrete reinforced by welded steel mesh. The huge main room is lit not by windows but by a wide horizontal rift of glass tubing at the angle of walls and ceiling and by skylights. It is ventilated through two circular ducts or "nostrils" rising through the building. Radiators have been eliminated by a heating system under the floor slabs. Clients. The history of the Johnson Building illustrates perfectly one of the traits in Frank Lloyd Wright...
...Americans missionaries, remained during the siege in which the Japanese slaughtered 33,000 Chinese soldiers (20,000 by execution), and wounded some 5,000, as well as thousands of civilians who, according to Timesman Durdin, "hobbled about, dragged themselves through alleyways, died by the hundreds on the main streets...
...less than $375. Said he: "It is the solution of the nation's troubles. Get agriculture and industry working hand in hand and that will mean the farmer and workingman are partners. ... I don't care if we can't make a cent of profit. The main thing is to get something started...
...with him to Tigertown that dressed for the McGill game. This of course means that he will still be without the services of Russ Allen who will not play for the Crimson until after Midyears. Although Allen is an important cog in the Crimson defense, Stubbs feels that his main worry lies with the Crimson offense. He was pleased with the defensive play against McGill last Saturday and by Klevorktan's capable handling of Allen's position...