Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Houghton for three years past has been Ambassador at Berlin. In a way Mr. Houghton is in accordance with the usual type of man appointed to the Court of St.James's. He was born in Cambridge, Mass. He was educated at Harvard. He is wealthy enough not to mind the fact that his salary of $17,500 will, at London, be only a drop in the bucket of his expenses. On the other hand, he is not a literary man, nor is he a publisher, a politician, an editor, a lawyer-but a manufacturer...
...chose as biographer Ray Stannard Baker, of Amherst, Mass. Mr. Maker, a man of 54, is the author of a number of books on public questions and (under the pen name of David Grayson) of a number of essays. After leaving the University of Michigan, he was connected with McClure's Syndicate and McClure's Magazine, served as an editor of the American Magazine. During the War he was attached to the State Department, and afterward served as Director of Publicity for the American Commission at the Paris Peace Conference. It was there that Baker -the spectacled, professional...
...dome has made every one of them shift or crack. That the Cathedral's solidity could be amply restored by the simple method of grouting. To grout is to force behind the stone facings liquid cement which, oozing through the broken rubble, would petrify it into a rigid mass capable of sustaining any weight. That grouting would do no more good than grouching, for the piers themselves rested on a weak foundation which delved little below the crypt. The only way to keep St. Paul's from replacing London Bridge in the famed nursery rhyme was to remove...
...Landscape Architecture, has been awarded to Alan Beverly Burritt 3S.L.A., of Albion, N. Y. Second and third places have been awarded to Gordon Joseph Culham 3S.L.A., of Toronto, Ont., and Thomas Drees Price 2S.L.A., of Caxias, Brazil. Honorable mention was awarded to Leon Reed Quinlan 3S.L.A., of Weston, Mass. The competition was for the best design of an Italian villa...
...materialistic civilization the practice of brotherly love scarcely extends beyond the home circle, let along transcends national boundaries. To pound home the very sordid conclusion that another war will forever wreck American prosperity and the European hope of future wealth is perhaps the only way in which the great mass of people can be persuaded to change its militaristic tactics. It is only ideally that religion is a foe of Mars...