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...questioned if this corporation was not "juggling" in permitting "maddening engineering competition" between its various elements, "especially when we consider the deleterious effects, on the health and morale of a selected personnel, of permitting a reduction of the standard allowances of heat, ventilation, water and light." Modern battleship design, as every one knows, seeks to eliminate waste space, waste weight, superfluous comfort...
...some time, Mrs. Wilson has been consulting with Cram & Ferguson, architects of the Cathedral, on the design of the sarcophagus. Recently, on a motor trip through New England with her brother, she called on the architects at their Boston office and accepted the final plans-a very simple marble tomb with a crusader's sword lying in relief upon its cover...
...save the competitors from the large amount of detailed study necessary to design eight or ten buildings for different uses, certain drawings are included which have been carefully studied by the authorities...
...competition is for the selection of an architect, not for the selection of any particular design, and it is provided that the winner may be required to study again the whole problem in close touch with the University authorities...
...Bryan carefully placed a chair for his expected visitor and left wide open the door of the executive office, a large hideous chamber, papered green and with a metallic ceiling embossed with a design of palm leaves, cornucopias and parallelograms. The Governor's mahogany conference table is so placed that he sits in a swivel chair in a sort of a stall formed by his rolltop desk, a small table and the large one. He placed the chair, in which he intended Gen. Dawes to sit, at the open end of this space. Then the General entered...