Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time of the first Chicago World's Fair, said he, the seeds of a native U. S. architecture were beginning to sprout in the offices of Louis Sullivan, designer of the first steel frame skyscrapers. Frank Lloyd Wright was working in that office. Disregarding Sullivan and Wright, the World's Fair authorities spent all their money on a flamboyant Court of Honor which slavishly followed the Paris Exposition of 1889. Sullivan was given a Transportation Building to do in a back lot of the Fairgrounds, which was heartily damned by U. S. conservatives but promptly won a medal...
Once an iron moulder, later a Nonconformist Wesleyan lay preacher, today Foreign Secretary of Great Britain, plodding "Uncle Arthur" Henderson has played until last week something less than second fiddle to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald in shaping the Empire's foreign policy. Dramatic therefore was his sprout. The League clock had just struck drowsy 4 p. m. Less than half the delegates were in their seats. The big speech of the day had already been made -so it was thought-by Europe's greatest orator, foxy, cello-throated Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister of France...
...about to spend a quarter-billion dollars on new public buildings. Chicago is to have a $14,000,000 post office. Federal court houses and post offices will soon sprout throughout the Mid-West. Chicago builders hunger for these fat federal contracts. Charles Curtis is Vice President of the U. S. Harry King Curtis, his son, is a Chicago lawyer. Last week Assistant State's Attorney Richard Jackson at Chicago began to investigate charges that Son Curtis had taken some $10,000 in "fees" from Chicago builders on promises to obtain for them federal construction contracts, presumably through...
...bright rays of spring sunshine, however, the Botanic Gardens once more bloom securely on the front page of the morning paper, but this time in the tranquil atmosphere of compromise. The Harvard administration and the local gardening forces have settled their difficulties to their mutual satisfaction. The buds will sprout in peace this spring, for the war of the roses is over...
Signer Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of transmission without wires and a devout Catholic, is daily supervising installation of the papal radio apparatus in a special one-story building from which sprout antennae 180 ft. high (but not higher than the dome of St. Peter...