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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ion forfive per cent of the cost of the building. When the structure was aboutone-third completed plaintiffs were wrongfully discharged by defendantowner and they sued for compensation. The court recognized that where an architect or contractor is wrong-fully dischaiged he should ordinarily be permitted to recover for workperformed at the contract rate and be allowed such profit, if any, as hewould have earned through doing the remainder of the work. The courtsaid: In the present case the price fixed in the contract for preparing theplans and specifications and superintending the work of the constructionwas five per cent of the cost of the building. The approximate cost ofthe building was §325,000. At the time the re.spondents were discharged,it appears from the evidence that the cost to them of completing the con-tract would have been $1500. Prior to this time they had been paid thesum of S8000. On this basis, then, applying the rule as above stated,there was a balance due of $6750.
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*•■%! u— PEN-AND-INK SKETCH BY ROGER BLAINE JANUARY, 1927 101 HEARING ,. AUDITORIUMSEFFECTS Of REVERDEKATION By Vecn 0. Knudsen Ph.D. l/ni>/er5iiv of CaliforniaSouihern Branch THE investigation of the effect of reverberation upon speech recep-tion has not been completed, but sufficient data have been obtainedto establish certain important relations between the time of rever-beration in a room and the efficiency of that room for the reception ofarticulated speech. Thus far, tests have been conducted in a smallroom, (volume 4096 cubic feet), in which the time reverberation couldbe controlled, and also in a group of fairly large high school auditoriums,having approximately same volumes (about 300,000 cubic feet) andshapes, but having times of reverberation ranging from 7.5 secondsdown to 2.8 .seconds. The articulation tests were conducted in appro.xi-mately the .same manner as has already been described for the noisetests. The caller called out the meaningless speech sounds, in

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