Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...architecture H. H. Richardson, the designer of Sever and Austin Halls in Cambridge, and of Trinity Church in Boston, "created almost single-handed out of a confusion which was actually worse than a mere void the beginnings of a new architecture. . . . In the fenestration of Austin Hall at Harvard (1881), he established the standards of a functionalist architecture." John Wellborn Root and Louis Sullivan, destined to play an important part in the further development of functionalism, were influenced by Richardson in his maturity. Their contributions to architecture are also outlined by the author...
Linked by no ties of blood or tradition, Yale plays St. John's for the mere sake of having an opponent scheduled and of preserving her vitality for a contest two weeks away. Where is the good old "devil-may-care" spirit of a university. Which does not stoop to petty things, which plays football for the fun of playing the game, and not for the hope that she may prove herself a superior institution by defeating her adversary in athletics? --Yale Daily News
...increase Japanese worries, spies reported that supplies of Soviet ammunitions and machine guns were appearing mysteriously in the Manchurian camps of Chinese "Generals" hostile to Japan. Such threats were no mere League of Nations note or invocation of a shadowy Pact of Paris. Post-haste the Japanese Ambassador in Moscow, Koki Hirota, rushed around to make a deal at the Soviet Foreign Office with that very cold Red fish, Comrade Leonid M. Karakhan...
...that early date the faculty was composed of a mere 11 members, while the students numbered 204. Of this latter number, 66 were registered in the, at that time, newly erected medical school, so that the four undergraduate classes boasted the munificent total of 138, less than one-fifteenth of the corresponding group today. An overwhelming majority of this number hailed from three states, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont. The other New England states had scattered representation, and New York barely entered into the count...
...film. Though on occasion the talkies have proven themselves quite equal to subtle and subjective treatments, a true transcription of Penrod would not have been profitable to make. The director, William Beaudine had his due from that greatest of all prompters, the box-office, to film a mere series of boy's pranks taking place in this present year of 1931. The results is comparable to a good "Our Gang" comedy, which though marred by as low beginning and a lame ending, reaches considerable heights in the middle...