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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...families, with an accompanying study of cost factors, shows that such houses must not cost much more than $3,300. Under present conditions this usually means either 1) a two-story box with six rooms or a one-story bungalow with five; 2) a lot not over 40 ft. wide; 3) quantity building on more or less identical plan. The challenge to architects: to face this fundamental problem in design, which now in many cases goes by default to builders without benefit of architect, with frequently characterless results...
...weather. You shouldn't plant your sweet corn until the leaf of the oak tree is as big as a mouse's ear. Enough corn for an average family can be planted by digging up a section of Fifth Avenue about fifty feet long and seven feet wide and planting two rows of hills about three feet apart...
...newspaper critics. Probably the ablest all-round of the lot, he combines journalistic dash ("Most Hamlets look like the original interior decorator") with analytical skill. With Anderson, he has the highest critical boiling point; brought in a plausible minority report on Abe Lincoln in Illinois. He lectures far & wide, has led Variety's boxscore for best-guessing hits and flops five times in the last nine years...
With an eye to the varies headlines of the day, the editors of the Harvard Guardian have chosen for their April issue a remarkably wide range of articles on current questions. For those who prefer foreign affairs for their monthly reading, the Guardian offers a defense of Japan, a study of a contemporary German village, and a paper on the diplomatic background of the World War. For those who would save America first, the Guardian presents a discussion of public spending, a consideration of careers in the public service, and a resume of the recent United States Housing Authority report...
...Requicm has a significant position in Brahms' life since its popularity in Germany during his lifetime brought him his first wide-spread recognition. The text was compiled by Brahms himself of meditations from the Bible concerning death and the life to come. It is thoroughly Protestant in its attitude, and in spite of the melancholy and grimness of some passages and the profound nature of the work as a whole, the optimistic Protestant conception of a blessed eternity for the righteous is the essence of its spirit. The terror of the Day of Judgment is followed by the defeat...