Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been found to bring her into meaningful association with others. As Helen, eleven-year-old Patty McCormack brought to the play many of the tantrum qualities that won praise for her part in the hit play and movie, The Bad Seed. As superlatively played by Teresa Wright, Annie was a no-nonsense teacher who refused to turn the other cheek. She fulminated against her charge ("pigheaded little jackass"), even slapped her occasionally. Nor did she mince words with the too-solicitous Captain (Burl Ives) and Mrs. Keller (Katharine Bard): "Helen's worst handicap isn't blindness...
...Adjustable Back. The great-grandfather of most modern furniture is Britain's famed igth century "Morris" chair with its familiar adjustable back, named for William Morris, leader in the protest against the machine-made monstrosities of his day. But it was Frank Lloyd Wright who rang in the modern age by demanding at the turn of the century "the right use of our great substitute for tools-Machines...
...Wright's cry was taken up in the 1920s by Germany's bustling, experimental Bauhaus School under Walter Gropius. It was at the Bauhaus that Architect Marcel Breuer designed the first chrome metal chair, whose descendants now populate the land as lawn or kitchen furniture. In Berlin, Mies van der Rohe first developed the cantilever metal chair, went on to produce the famed "Barcelona" chair, designed for his sumptuous German Pavilion at Barcelona's 1929 International Exposition. For the Barcelona chair he used chrome-plated stainless steel, covered the cushions with sumptuous kid leather. Cost...
Herter was one of a panel arranged by Thomas E. Crookes '49, head of Student Placement. Russell H. Peck '43, assistant dean of the Law School, moderated the panel consisting of John Rhome, partner of Hutchins & Wheeler, Boston; Wright Tisdale, Assistant General Counsel of Ford Motor Company; and Herter, partner of Bingham, Dana & Gould...
...corporation lawyer, Wright Tisdale explained, handles problems arising between the corporation and the people with which the company deals. These groups include unions, other companies, and government agencies...