Word: tiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building is in the modernized Georgian style and in keeping with the surrounding Harvard Buildings. An unusual feature, and one deserving of attention, is the hand-carved frieze above the upper tier of windows on the sides of the building forming the interior courtyard. This carving was done directly on the face of the brick in a bold, straight-forward manner, and portrays animal and plant life in its abundance giving at the same time a warm, friendly tone to the structure. The three wings already constructed from a rectangular court, with raised terraces which slope down to the still...
...tuning up under Conductor Karl Riedel, echoes of an audience which included many pleased youngsters. Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel was the opera, first whole performance to be broadcast from the Metropolitan. Composer Deems Taylor, official narrator, sat in a little glass booth in one of the grand tier boxes, describing music and action to radiauditors. In another soundproof booth were an expert with score in hand, ready with warnings to tone down drum beats and bass notes, and an engineer watching the volume-registering needle...
...interior of Mr. Carroll's $4,500,000 cathedral was obviously not the work of restrained Architect Joseph Urban, who built the Ziegfeld Theatre. It was done by George Keister and Joseph J. Babolnay. Tier upon tier of colored stone ribbed with twinkling metal rose like the bulge of a gigantic layer cake. A loudspeaker in the lobby urged latecomers to hurry...
...like an oblong box, the rostrum being at the centre of one of the longer sides. Behind the rostrum is a stately backdrop for the show, a wall against which brown columns stand like sentinels with ornate Corinthian caps. Around the other three sides of the room galleries rise tier on tier. A magnet for every eye is the great green-&-gold Voting Urn. As everyone knows, Aristide Briand, twelve times Prime Minister of France, Foreign Minister for the past six years,- "Man of Locarno," winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1926), co-author of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact...
...seeking, and shade-seeking plants. Stone walls with running water, foraquaceous plants are also to be mounted on top of the upper story. Another unusual feature will be a frieze running above the upper tier of windows, constructed of projecting copper-covered bosses, each showing one of the symbols of Biological Science...