Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Washington picked the site "upon a rising ground, affording a fine water prospect, with a view of the Capitol." James Hoban, an Irish architect residing in Charleston, S. C., won a $500 prize competition for the plans by copying the ducal home of Leinster near Dublin. Much of his design was lopped away for economy's sake. President Washington laid the cornerstone without ceremony...
...plan but glowered at the other three. Details of the suggested mergers presented the reader with a somewhat forbidding assembly of names connected with "&'s," and listed such roads as the 45-mile Montour and the 13-mile Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny. The multiplicity of the branches obscured a clear view of their trunks...
There is inherent in the House Plan an idealism attractive to all those who are valiant for progress, and Mr. Broch's view of the case is influenced by it to a large degree. His view is that of the normal outside observer who sees in the pictures painted for publicity a social and mental readjustment which he believes is a crying need in the universities of the country. That Harvard has consented--after a happy accident--to be the guinea pig in the experiment is to her glory...
...question has essentially resolved itself into a quarrel between the romantic and realistic points of view. The battle opens with the realist protesting against the archaism and viciousness of the theory that the gentleman pays because he is more liberally supplied with funds. There is generally no attempt to refuse this realistic contention, and from this point the argument conventionally assumes something of the following form...
There will be a private view of a loan exhibition of paintings, at the Fogg Art Museum, on Wednesdays afternoon, March 6, from 3 until 6 o'clock. Nineteenth and twentieth century works, of a group of famous French artists, will compose the exhibit...