Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they could be transported to Ethiopia, where most of them thought they were going to begin with, II Duce might consent to their withdrawal from Spain but Ethiopia cannot yet support them...
...phrase "military action directed against Germany" refers to Belgium's obligations under the League Covenant to support military sanctions against a state declared an aggressor. European observers opined that delay in concluding the new agreement has been caused by Berlin efforts to edge Belgium away from the League. These failed because, as a price for the Anglo-French release, Belgium had promised to stick by her League commitments...
...have to be combined with it, not sugared over it. By the time his Staatliche Bauhaus Weimar moved to Dessau in 1925, its faculty and students were able to collaborate on a set of workshops and dormitories which have become classics of intelligent architecture. The city of Dessau helped support the school. Its students were given a thorough ground-breaking course in the possibilities of all materials employed in building and manufacture, were taught simultaneously by a technician who made them use their hands and a designer who made them use their brains. After three years of training, a chosen...
...Gropius in 1928, the Bauhaus was directed successively by Functionalist Hannes Meyer and by Mies van der Rohe, a German architect famed for the elegance he has added to functionalism. In 1932 the school in Dessau had to be closed because an unfriendly Nazi Government would no longer support it. By that time, however, the designs of Bauhaus workmen had permeated German industry, their liberated minds had produced two sound inventions now familiar in Europe and the U. S.: indirect lighting, tubular furniture...
...years ago by the first Marshall Field, given outright last year to the Chicago Association of Arts & Industries by Marshall Field III. The association, headed by grey-haired President Edward H. Powell of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., and endowed a few years ago by midwest business bluebloods, gave its support to the School of Industrial Design at the Chicago Art Institute until last year it decided to use its $262,000 fund to establish a more ambitious school...