Word: tiled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they are schoolboys of taste they view it with alarm. No man was ever more betrayed by his imitators. What the trade knew as "Richardsonian Romanesque" are the banks, schools, churches, libraries, jails which still dot the land, built of the knobbiest of rough-cut masonry, with livid tile roofs, arched windows and a profusion of useless squat towers. What his admirers have never ceased to point out is that Richardson himself was very seldom Richardsonian. His best buildings: the Marshall Field Wholesale Store in Chicago, Harvard's Sever Hall, the Albany City Hall, Boston's Brattle Square...
With the face-off of the Adams and Dudley centers in the initial tile at 2.30 o'clock, plans for House hockey which have been brewing for several years will finally materialize. Prior to this year, a great deal of enthusiasm had been registered by ambitious House punsters, but no convenient rink could be found. Shortly before the Christmas recess, Adolph W. Samborski '25, director of Intramural Athletics, offered a solution by announcing that games could be arranged either in the Garden or the Arena during the exam period, since there are few Varsity practices at this time...
Torming him "the most single influential person in the country." General Johnson lays the huge spending program, the decline in farm product exporte, and the failure of the unemployment program to tile philosophy of the Byrne Professor of Administrative Law and his "hot dogs," whom he has placed in almost every section of the government...
...with fat, noncompetitive contracts to supply the State with such things as prison uniforms. His crowning reward was the presidency of the New Orleans Levee Board, with permission to build and name for himself a $4,000,000 airport having "Shushan" engraved 3,200 times on its metal, stone, tile and bronze. It was he who, as a bosom friend, stayed by Long's death bed. rushed out with the first news of his passing...
...death early in September. He wrote many books on Oriental art, and was one of the first to penetrate Cambodia, a region in Indo-China, for artistic research. It was he who introduced Persian pottery to the Boston public, as well as awaken an interest in the colored tile of this region. Although he was a profuse collector, Dr. Ross kept few objects for himself, giving the majority to either the Boston Museum or the Fogg...