Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Frank Lloyd Wright's attempt to give the U. S. something new in church architecture last week had proved too revolutionary for Kansas City's public works department. Months ago aging (71), progressive Pastor Burris Jenkins of Kansas City asked Wright to design a new Community Church. Aging (71), progressive Architect Wright responded with what he called "the first completely functional church." Last fortnight Commissioner of Buildings Frank Lloyd (no relation) Lang took a look at the plans, refused to issue a permit because they did not comply with the city's 1927 building code. He demanded...
Horse Fever (by Eugene Conrad, Zac & Ruby Gabel; produced by Alex Yokel). A poor attempt by Producer Yokel to repeat the success of Three Men on a Horse, this preposterous comedy is like one of the more demented comic strips come to life. It is the story of a family that inherits a race horse which won't start with the rest of the field. Unfortunately the family has an inventive cousin who has already cluttered up the house with a shoe-shining device that pops out of the wall, a musical chair that plays when rocked, a rattrap...
...That Greenfield had stirred up trouble in an attempt to "get control" of the university...
...conference, which will exchange ideas on community service and attempt to spread the type of work the Phillips Brooks House does to campuses throughout the nation, will be attended by re-resentatives of such colleges as Yale, M. I. T., Brown, Columbia, Tufts, Boston University, Mt. Holyoke, and Vassar...
This is the second time P. B. H. has taken steps to expand social service work. Last summer Harry Newman, Jr. '42 toured west coast colleges in an attempt to spread the P. B. H. ideas. This spring Harvard will take the lead again...