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...architecture H. H. Richardson, the designer of Sever and Austin Halls in Cambridge, and of Trinity Church in Boston, "created almost single-handed out of a confusion which was actually worse than a mere void the beginnings of a new architecture. . . . In the fenestration of Austin Hall at Harvard (1881), he established the standards of a functionalist architecture." John Wellborn Root and Louis Sullivan, destined to play an important part in the further development of functionalism, were influenced by Richardson in his maturity. Their contributions to architecture are also outlined by the author...
...join any club or that he will not join any other club, and any such pledge or promise, whether originating in misunderstanding or otherwise, shall not be binding upon such undergraduates or upon any of the said clubs agreeing thereto, but shall be regarded by everybody as null and void and contrary to the spirit of this agreement...
...announced that a majority of his farmers favored it. Governor Harvey Parnell of Arkansas had sent a delegation to Austin to urge it. With the plan already doomed to defeat through Texas' failure to adopt it. Governor Long said he would declare the Louisiana bill "null and void and inoperative." Oklahoma cotton growers agreed to follow Texas. Alabama and Mississippi were still lukewarm. North Carolina's Governor Oliver Max Gardner announced that no session of his General Assembly would be called "to completely abandon the growing of cotton." His points: 1) The trouble with U. S. cotton...
When Congress passed the Federal Radio Act in 1927 it suspected the existence of an "air trust." Therefore in Section 13 of that law it directed the Federal Radio Commission to void all licenses of broadcasting and communications companies "finally adjudged guilty by a Federal court of unlawfully monopolizing or attempting to monopolize radio communications through the control of radio apparatus." RCA with some 4,000 patents dominated the radio manufacturing field, compelled rival firms making sets under a patent-license-and-royalty system to install only RCA vacuum tubes in their products. So complete was its grip...
...Philadelphia last week Sir James repeated his theory of the solar system's development: the sun and another star once upon a time passed close to each other, a rare celestial occurrence. The passage caused enormous tides in the gaseous sun. Streamers of sun material sped into the void, broke away from the sun, coalesced into planets...