Word: nave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Conant is exhibiting 12 pencil sketches of architectural subjects, some French, some Spanish and one English. He has also included the restoration which he made of the Cathedral of Chartres with a thirteenth century spire, substituted for the flamboyant one now standing, and with the nave lowered and set back as originally planned...
Lyman Gage died at Point Loma, high, green promontory near San Diego, Calif. Theosophists nave their homes there. "I am not a theosophist," said Lyman Gage two decades ago. "I claim the privilege of withdrawal from the struggles of business life. Point Loma climate is most agreeable . . . here one can lead the simple life."‡ There he, 73, married Frances Ada Ballou, 36, who was with him, 17 years later...
...these presents are delightful, but they do not help the car to climb hills! Or it reminds one of the situation of the dean of a cathedral who receives plenty of money for memorial chapels and stained-glass windows, but is hard put to it to build the nave to shelter the crowds which will come to worship. Not infrequently the most generous gift merely complicates the problem of how to keep the institution running...
...months, will work for six more months on the details.? The building will be of gray stone, probably of Indiana limestone, over a steel skeleton. It will cover practically all of the 22,500 feet of land (225 feet on Riverside Drive, 100 feet on W. 122nd St.) Its nave, 100 feet wide, will run north and south, parallel with the Hudson River. Its main entrance will be at the south end through a bell tower facing the Drive. Parishioners will have a turn to their left, after entering, to face the altar. They will have about 2,500 seats...
Hands Up. Famous players nave taken their newest comedian and wound him round with a Civil War burlesque. The action is somewhat mischievously placed in Utah, and Brigham Young and most of his wives are added for eccentric complication. The comedian is Raymond Griffith and the play has a double happy-ending. Thanks to the proximity of Salt Lake City, the hero is permitted to marry both his sweethearts...