Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In 1897, Carrère & Hastings won the prize in the countrywide competition for the New York Public Library. In 1911 when the building was opened to the public John Carrère was killed in a street accident. In his will, Architect Hastings has left $250,000 to remodel...
Wandering in a haunted Venezuelan jungle, a naturalist once heard a trilling note, birdlike, clear, unearthly. Stumbling in the thickets, he sought its source for days, but it always eluded him. One day by accident he came upon the triller.
Said Paul Hoffman, vice president in charge of sales and one of the four men who operate the great Studebaker Corp. and who are currently engaged in making Fierce-Arrow highly profitable : "Whether you like it or not, the public wants speed. . . . This Council can save lives by urging States...
A two-seater, dual control Consolidated biplane was equipped with these new instruments, plus of course the usual flying equipment, and put on the field. Harry Frank Guggenheim, 39, president of the Guggenheim Fund and Ambassador-nominate to Cuba was present. He and Lieutenant Doolittle had an argument. The Lieutenant...
"In each of these eras lawyers turned to comparative law to give concrete content to ideas of what the law should be . . . It is not an accident that comparative law, after decades of quiescence, is taking on new life in this country. If we are to proceed wisely in creative...