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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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anddown the Adriatic. He is always shownwith his book in which he keeps his recordsor more probably his accounts, for the Ve-- netians were strictly business. When Venice is at peace the book is alwaysESCORIALETTES ON ESCORIAL s Qpg^ as shown on the facade of the Doges CHIMNEYS EXCORIATE STORKS J^ \r ■ ■ . ^. fk^ Kr^r^^ Palace. When Venice is at war the book St. Francis-like sympathy has left the top-ping of his flues free and a family of storkshas claimed it for its own, and year in andyear out defy all laws of celibacy and raisea brood of hungry-mouthed, gawky-leggedfledglings. * * * Mt. Blanc is well named, for where it iswhite it is dazzling white contrasted withthe blackest of blacks of its rock structureand when, on rare occasions at Geneva, itis visible in the late afternoon light fromthe Beau Rivage, it is a rosy mass floatingafar off in the azure sky. Montreux is one of the beauty spots ofthe world and when a double-winged bird-like boat happens to head for the strait be-
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NOW THE LIONS OF THE DOGES DODGETHE EMBLEMS OF MUSSOLINI is closed and tightly held down by thelions clenched fist as the winged lion doesthat stands aloft on the left one of thathistoric pair of columns on the molo at thewater front of the piazzetta. Taking a hintfrom the lions book here closeth the ac-count. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER -^ 4,4 ^ DECEMBER, NINETEEN THIRTY-FOUR B usiness Better A N H A Survey o NE of the most com-prehensive surveys of the National Hous-ing Act yet to be made has recently beencompleted by Wolcott 6 Holcomb, Inc.. ad-vertising counsellors of Boston, Mass. Thepurpose of the survey was to disclose asaccurately as possible the beneficial resultsof the Act to date and its probable futureprogress. That the information might beas diversified as possible inquiries weresent to a wide range of informants, includ-ing advertising agencies, NRA regional di-rectors, newspapers and trade papers,chambers of commerce and miscellaneoussources, checking one against the oth

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