Word: plans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their elaborate efforts to provide a worthy council hall, the French finally abandoned their plan of installing a marble copy of the Medici Venus directly above the speaker's rostrum. Explained French Architect Bernard Monnet: "It would have shocked the British." Instead of Venus, he chose a discreetly robed Minerva. That was perhaps symbolic. The Council would not succeed through love; if it accomplished anything, it would do so in the ways of Minerva, a hardheaded and practical woman...
...will wind up at the office door of one of the nation's 15,000 practicing architects. For a fee ranging from 5% to 15% of the total cost of the house, the architect will do some or all of the following: help choose a site, help plan the house (or plan it altogether), make drawings so that the prospective owner can see what his house will look like, help choose and deal with the contractor, and supervise the actual construction...
...zones, Nash-Kelvinator began July with the largest inventory it had ever carried. Meter-propelled sales soon cleaned out the stock. The General Furniture Co., in Chicago's slummy South Side, sold more than 2,000 refrigerators and other appliances in two weeks, almost all on the meter plan...
Last week, under a huge canopy of festive lights paid for by the Giornale, Trasteverini thronged happily to the feast. The sponsors had discarded an original plan to crown as "Miss Vino" the Trastevere girl who could drink the most wine, thought it would be even more imprudent to hold a regular beauty contest. "The first," explained a committeeman, "would not be dignified in these times; the second would be too dangerous, because there are too many girls in Trastevere who are the most beautiful...
...order to achieve this plan, Author Balchin believes, that Cesare schemed and wheedled troops from the French and raised his private horde of Swiss and Italian bandits. While his satiated father sat back weakly on his throne (some historians think, on the contrary, that Borgia senior was quite handy at murder), son Cesare stormed and conquered numerous fortresses in Italy. Men who got in his way were ruthlessly disposed of by his Spanish henchman, Don Michelotto, or quietly turned over to his bland and terrifying secretary, Agapito, who, in Author Balchin's version, sounds comically like P. G. Wodehouse...