Word: wellborn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...superior to me by birth. . . . The human race hasn't been worked on by professional breeders-yet. It's different with hogs, and guinea pigs. You can mate animals experimentally, and by doing a good job of matchmaking for many, many generations you can arrive at a "wellborn" hog and call it a Poland-China, or what not. But that's never been done with people, so why pretend it has? If a family can name its pappies and grandpappies for 300 years back, we call it an "ancient" family. And yet, 300 years amount to only...
...been in some respects, the Episcopal Church has never temporized in its battles against divorce and the remarriage of divorced persons. What has made the problem painfully thorny for the Church is the fact that, more than any other single denomination, it is made up of a body of wellborn, well-to-do communicants who are particularly addicted to divorce. Thus Bishop Freeman voiced the genuine alarm and anger of his colleagues in declaring...
...year separates the births of John Augur Holabird and John Wellborn Root. their graduation from the Beaux Arts in Paris, their architectural entry into Chicago. In 1919 they were both made partners in Holabird & Roche and young John Root had caught up with old John Holabird. Although their careers have been almost identical, the two Johns are not alike. To Mr. Root, now 47, generally goes credit for brilliant designs and breath-taking solutions; to Mr. Holabird, praise for mastering minutiae, overcoming practical obstacles. More social than his partner, chunky bespectacled Mr. Root enjoys peering at Lake Michigan from...
...TIME, Oct. 10). They rigged up a Quartier Latin of wall board and in one of the concessions they established a life class model, better looking than most, who supplied an eyeful to non-professional guests at $1 a head. The venture was such a success that famed John Wellborn Root and other architects got Merchant George Lytton and others to put up a guarantee fund with which to build the $250,000 Streets of Paris on the World's Fair's Midway. A good part of the U. S. public has now heard about the Streets...
...Halls in Cambridge, and of Trinity Church in Boston, "created almost single-handed out of a confusion which was actually worse than a mere void the beginnings of a new architecture. . . . In the fenestration of Austin Hall at Harvard (1881), he established the standards of a functionalist architecture." John Wellborn Root and Louis Sullivan, destined to play an important part in the further development of functionalism, were influenced by Richardson in his maturity. Their contributions to architecture are also outlined by the author...