Word: stuccos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gandhi, dressed in a newly starched khadi loin cloth, with a white cotton shawl over his bare shoulders, drove in a new, green Studebaker to Jinnah's stucco house. Acting the part of Qaed-e-Azam (Head of the Nation), Jinnah sent his secretary to greet Gandhi at his car, waited inside the house for his first private meeting with the Hindu leader in three years...
Outside, it was bone cold. Inside, big stoves were stoked red-hot to warm the 800 dancers who whirled over the floor of Loebel's Volksgaststatte, a rambling stucco dance hall and restaurant in Berlin's British zone...
...including meals), and good slopes and trails start at the back door. There, as in most of the lodges, expert and duffer alike turn out for ski-school lessons at rates which average $2 for a half-day. There are scores of others, from the stucco Chalet Cochand to the simplest and cheapest French Canadian farmhouse...
...front of his name (Ir. is a contraction of ingenieur, Dutch for engineer). Soekarno's architectural career was as short as his professional title. He designed a few Chinese homes and was commissioned to do a Moslem mosque (most Java mosques are hideous tin-roofed stucco monstrosities, in contrast to the lovely ruins of the vanquished Hindu temples...
...Boyden Station in South Africa, corresponding center for southern photography, is at Harvard Kopje in Orange Free State. Its white stucco buildings, located on a high plateau 14 miles from Bloemfontein, contain six telescopes which cover all of the southern sky and 30 degrees of the northern. The site first chosen for the Southern observatory, Arepuipa, Peru, was in operation from 1890 to 1926 at which time the expensive transfer of equipment was made to the new location...