In their book, American Skyline, Christopher Tunnard and Henry Hope Reed argue that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was what made the modern suburb a possibility -- a fine ironical argument, when you consider how suburbanites tend to vote.

House Speaker Sam Rayburn ( D., Tex. ) called the Kennedy program `` a mighty fine thing '', but made no prediction on its fate in the House.

Objects of fine art from this period were frequently made from rare and valuable materials, such as gold and lapis, the cost of which commonly exceeded the wages of the artist.

He also made many fine finished drawings, mostly landscapes, in pen and watercolour such as the Landscape with the Woodcutter in 1522.

In 1919, after delays caused by the destruction of World War I and a lengthy debate over who should head the institution and the socio-economic meanings of a reconciliation of the fine arts and the applied arts ( an issue which remained a defining one throughout the school's existence ), Gropius was made the director of a new institution integrating the two called the Bauhaus.

She made a fine impression and was well received by the people of England.

Various kinds of khaddar-cloth are made for local consumption, and fine khaddar bedclothes and coarse lungies are woven here.

In 1790 with his apprenticeship nearing its end, Thompson made the unusual request of a set of surveying tools in place of the typical parting gift of fine clothes offered by the company to those completing their indenture.

Diatomaceous earth is a soft, siliceous, sedimentary rock made up of the cell walls / exoskeleton | shells of single cell diatoms and which readily crumbles to a fine powder.

Rough-outs were made locally near the quarries, and some were polished locally to give a fine finish.

They are mostly objects of armour, but fine bowls and furnishings are daidala, and on one occasion so are the " bronze-working " of " clasps, twisted brooches, earrings and necklaces " made by Hephaestus while cared for in secret by the goddesses of the sea.

Certain drawing methods or approaches, such as " doodling ," other informal kinds of drawing, and the surrealist method of " entopic graphomania ", in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots, may or may not be considered part of " drawing " as a " fine art ".

In graphic arts ( 2D image making that ranges from photography to illustration ) the distinction is often made between fine art and commercial art, based on the context within which the work is produced and how it is traded.

The doors of the palace at Palermo, which were made by Saracenic workmen for the Normans, are fine examples and in good preservation.

After Sullivan got to know Presley personally, he made amends by telling his audience, " This is a real decent, fine boy.

Sites of interest include Corralejo and El Jable to the north which are made up of fine sand dunes whilst the south is filled with long beaches and remote bays.

The anode catalyst is usually made up of very fine platinum powder.

He worked mainly in woodcut, although he made six engravings, one very fine.

In the 18th century fine clavicytheria were made by Albertus Delin, a Flemish builder.

Although the Harmonites typically wore plain clothing, made with their own materials by their own tailors, they would wear their fine garments on Sundays and on other special occasions.

Flax and cotton were also used for fine materials, but the processing was difficult because of the pre-processing needed, and thus goods in these materials made only a small proportion of the output.

Kimonos made with exceptional skill from fine materials have been regarded as great works of art.

The Gospels were illustrated in an insular style containing a fusion of Celtic, Germanic and Roman elements ; they were probably originally covered with a fine metal case made by a hermit called Billfrith.

Alumina, silicon carbide, and tungsten carbide are made from a fine powder of their constituents in a process of sintering with a binder.

From the collection centers, toys will be taken to a warehouse at 198 Second street, where they will be repaired and made ready for distribution.

The entire Sloan collection will be made available at the center to all serious art students and historians.

It is probable that the first collection of astronomical observations and terrestrial omens was made for a library established by Sargon.

The project included collection and identification of all stone fragments, even small ones, from the Acropolis and its slopes and the attempt was made to restore as much as possible using reassembled original material-with new marble from Mount Penteli used sparingly.

At Nuremberg in 1733, he published a collection of 316 observations of the aurora borealis made by himself and others over the period 1716 – 1732.

Fluctuations in the value of the currency made collection of taxes in kind the norm, although these could be converted into coin.

Also in 1839, the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque was published in two volumes, though he made little money off of it and it received mixed reviews.

He channelled his medieval interests into a peculiar secret hobby: In a filing cabinet he maintained a collection of imaginary buildings, most of them described as being made out of some kind of metal, which he drew on little cards.

This earlier collection — which includes the famous Jelly Roll Morton, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Muddy Waters sessions, as well as Lomax ’ s prodigious collections made in Haiti and Eastern Kentucky ( 1937 ) — is the provenance of the American Folklife Center " at the library of Congress

Several single packs and multi-figure sets by Jesco ( later Trendmasters ), as well as a 50th anniversary collection, have been made of the Gumby characters.

The Harvard Museum of Natural History has a collection of extremely detailed models of flowers made of painted glass.

Hudson had a collection of old master drawings, including some by Guercino, of which Reynolds made copies.

Hoover made changes, such as expanding and combining fingerprint files in the Identification Division to compile the largest collection of fingerprints to date.

The entire collection, plus Fanning and Washington islands ( part of the Line Islands ), was made a British colony, also called Gilbert and Ellice Islands, in 1916, as part of the British Western Pacific Territories ( BWPT ).

Austin Kyoto Common Lisp ( AKCL ) is a collection of ports, bug fixes, and performance improvements to KCL made by William Schelter.

A library ( from French " librairie "; Latin " liber " = book ) is an organized collection of resources made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing.

A collection of Western and Soviet made arms and equipment exists ranging from rifles to tanks.

During his time as pope, Clement XI made a concerted effort to acquire Christian manuscripts in Syriac from Egypt and other places in the Middle East, greatly expanding the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana's collection of Syriac works.

Much of statistics is non-mathematical: ensuring that data collection is undertaken in a way that allows valid conclusions to be drawn ; coding and archiving of data so that information is retained and made useful for international comparisons of official statistics ; reporting of results and summarised data ( tables and graphs ) in ways that are comprehensible to those who need to make use of them ; implementing procedures that ensure the privacy of census information.

In his short story collection A Century of Great Suspense Stories, editor Jeffrey Deaver noted that King “ singlehandedly made popular fiction grow up.

A collection of barges on the southwest end of the lake, near the village of Watkins Glen, is being preserved and made accessible for scuba diving by the Finger Lakes Underwater Preserve Association.

Alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins made an acoustic cover of the song that was featured on their 1994 B-side collection Pisces Iscariot.

More broadly, a society may be described as an economic, social, or industrial infrastructure, made up of a varied collection of individuals.

While they were in Australia Banks, the Swedish botanist Daniel Solander and the Finnish botanist Dr. Herman Spöring Jr. made the first major collection of Australian flora, describing many species new to science.

Edward is depicted as the central saint of the Wilton Diptych ( c. 1395 – 99 ), a devotional piece made for Richard II, but now in the collection of the National Gallery.