Word: saws
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...White House) were to radiate other avenues cutting the city's network of smaller streets. A parkway or Mall was to sweep westward from the Capitol to the Potomac. Stately public buildings were to fill the triangle between Pennsylvania Avenue and the Mall. President Washington's watchful eye saw the President's House begun (1792), the Capitol cornerstone laid (1793). But George Washington was dead before the Government took possession of its new city...
...National Academy where his early work showed the soft imitative convention. Like most young artists he looked first to the Old World. He lived a dozen years in Paris, married a Russian. His restless, probing intellect carried him into Cubism, for a while, but he traveled to Italy and saw the Primitives, compared their simple legends with the confusion of the Paris theorists...
...returned to Mexico shortly after the Obregon government came into power. The new government, socialist-labor, saw the virtue of popular art and commissioned native artists to decorate government buildings in a way that peons could understand. Native talent was abundant. After six years, Diego Rivera has emerged as the leader of many...
...chief obstacles he saw to the perfection of all-air transportation for passengers from coast-to-coast: 1) The fog hazard, which he expects to see solved by radio; 2) The problem of safe night flying with passengers. Said he of the latter: "I don't think we are ready for such a thing at present. It shouldn't be carried out until we have in this country a reliable four-engined job. The details of such a plane, I believe, we should leave to the aeronautical engineers. I have no definite ideas as to the arrangement...
...Ticknor continued in his batting slump, striking out three times. Nugent drew a walk in the first inning. E. H. McGrath '31 singled, and a passed ball which rolled into the Crimson dugout let them both in. A moment later when the catcher dropped his third strike. Ticknor saw first base for the first time since early in the Southern trip, but was stranded there...