Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...threatens the architectural aesthetic round on an accumulative tradition, of Roman, Romanesque and Renaissance design. It dispenses with contracting engineers, with servants, with such domestic appendages as laundries, custom built furniture, electric light bulbs, carpets. It threatens the present economic system of centralized control of natural resources. It may mean the dissolution of the suburbs, the population of seemingly inaccessible parts of the earth. Personal independence of drudgery, allowance for a doubled leisure, a more civilized manner of existence, all depend on the Dymaxion House. Mr. Fuller has created the possibility of a new civilization, a new world of people...
Indeed Mr. Fuller has reinvented all the appurtenances of worksday life. The only thing left for him now, is the discovery of that elixir, by which man can double his span--so that he may satisfactorily enjoy the inevitable Millenium...
...stated would be better fitted for the surroundings of East Boston. Obviously the article was not meant as a reflection on the people living in East Boston. It was merely an effort to improve conditions under which the students are living, and the reference to the East Boston district may or may not have been...
...Gina, Mr. Anderson as the younger Ekdal, Mr. Clovelly as Gregers Werle, and to Miss Davis in the exceedingly trying role of Hedvig. These four, carrying the brunt of the acting, make the play an intensely human thing. They demonstrate beyond a possible doubt that regardless of what may be said as to Ibsen or his plays, in talented hands the two can be put across...
...Crimson triumph must be dimmed by the record of Yale's performances against Princeton Har- vard supporters may well worry at Engle's mark of 21 7-10 seconds in this furlong, Kieselhort's 23 8-5 in the lows, Conner's 165 feet 2 1-2 inches in the hammer, Brandenburg's 135, 7 1-4 in the discus, and Gorman of Yale's 44 feet 5 1-2 inches in the 16-pound shot. It looks as if the Blue will have at least a safer advantage when it plays host to the Crimson at New Haven...