Word: utilitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rooms, Tremont Street, Boston, on May 12, 1865, and expressed the need for a memorial to immortalize those sons of Harvard who had fallen in the Union cause, they started a controversy similar to that of the present period. Advocates of a marble column opposed supporters of a utilitarian memorial, and every group boosted its own cause. Memorial Hall was the $360,000 heterogeneous compromise theater, dining hall, and memorial transept. The transept was enlogized with the words, "There, amid the gorgeous emblazonry, shall be read their names, their academic year, their battles." And the marble tablets that cover...
Last week flamboyant Davis had an answer wrapped in a typical British understatement. Said Mayor Arthur A. Goodfellow of Dover: "We agree that a memorial to Churchill might be a good thing, but something more modest and utilitarian would be preferable...
Peggy Guggenheim, copper-rich patroness of the arts and collector of artists, was out two dreamlike paintings, an abstract sculpture and a utilitarian gewgaw. Incredibly stolen from her art gallery: Flat Landscape and Child of the Mountain by Paul Klee, an untitled chromium relief by Hans Arp, and a fancy bottle top wrought by Author Laurence Vail, her first husband...
...library, not familiar to most Harvard students, is located on Western Avenue, behind the Business School and the athletic fields. Of simple design, the utilitarian structure, 88 by 64 feet, surrounds a stack of six levels. In front of the stack is a reading room which can accommodate 20 persons...
...soon found that he was not to get an equal chance for promotion. It was not Army policy, for obvious if strictly utilitarian reasons, to put Negro officers in command of whites. The Army has commissioned only some 5,000 Negro officers. It had the justification it sought, in the Negro's lack of pre-war military training and his lower educational level...