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...easy to build a machine which will rise vertically. With skilled design, one horsepower can be made to lift 100 pounds; 35 horsepower will lift a weight for which an airplane like the De Havilland requires a 400 horsepower Liberty. Nor is a high degree of forward speed really hard to achieve. It is in coming down with engines stopped that the main difficulty lies. The airscrew must then act as a giant parachute. When one man sails down gently in a parachute its supporting area must be over 100 square feet. It is enormously difficult to provide a supporting...
...again the work is done not from books but by a study of the originals, and such work in the detection of forgery, the preservation of art treasures, and sympathy with color and form, as will make the homes of our people, the humblest of them, beautiful in proportion, design and color...
...represents beauty in design with economy of construction and absence of excessive ornamentation. This is why President Lowell and Dean Donham of the Business School selected its type of architecture to dominate the group which Bishop Lawrence says "will be a great symbol of what right business means to the nation and a great memorial to the part great business men have played in the development of the country from Colonial times to the present day." Thomas Jefferson's design for the University of Virginia buildings has influenced the architecture of the most striking building...
...Library is so designed that the stacks can be extended, and the whole building can be doubled, without in any way changing the present design. It is now planned to house 150,000 volumes...