Sentences with phrase «century industrialist»

And in my book on morality and getting these people to grow up I again bring up the example of 19th century industrialists who were incredibly rich and often rather cruel in their business lives who reinvented themselves, so a Carnegie whose business career certainly wasn't exemplary in any moral sense.

Each painting is as much a tutorial in flora and fauna as it is as a scathing indictment of the wrongs committed by nineteenth - century industrialists or — locating the work in the present — contemporary American consumer society.

But on the inside, the vans may be as lavishly decorated as the private railroad cars owned by turn - of - the - century industrialists.»

Not exact matches

We're sitting in his 10th - floor office in the Phelan Building, a San Francisco landmark built at the turn of the century by James D. Phelan, an American industrialist and senator, who also happened to be the son of an Irish immigrant.

Oh crikey, he's going on about Indian Nabobs, and ruthless industrialists... And in the 20th century it was the trade union leaders «tamed by Lady Thatcher», Sir Peter continues.

In the late 19th century, peerages began to be awarded to industrialists with increasing frequency.

Tiverton was the more industrial, heading the lace - making industry in the South - West under the industrialist John Heathcoat and his family who provided several MPs for the seat in the nineteenth and twentieth century (David Heathcoat - Amory, the former minister and MP for Wells, is his great - great - grandson).

Ed Ra, a Republican from Long Island, said Kasich eschewed a podium to sit at a table with officials set up in the Fort Orange Club's President's Room, adorned with portraits of the industrialists who got the elite institution running at the end of the 19th century.

At about 20 minutes drive from Bergamo, Crespi d'Adda is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a great example of the 19th and 20th century «company towns» which were built in Europe and North America by industrialists in order to meet the workers» needs.

The villa was built in the early 20th century and is decorated with Art Nouveau stucco, bought in 1913 by Alfred Löw - Beer an industrialist operating in the wool trade and sugar industry.

Campaign mode offers a wide range of real - world transit challenges inspired by North America and Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, while endless mode lets endeavoring industrialists go wild with their imaginations in fully realized environments.

We play Oswald Mandus, a wealthy industrialist in 19th Century London.

It was in this sense that it was first employed by the French Utopian socialist Henri de Saint - Simon, in the third decade of the nineteenth century, when he designated artists, scientists, and industrialists as the elite leadership of a new social order:

Over a thirty - year period industrialist Norton Simon (1907 — 1993) amassed an astonishing collection of European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century and a stellar collection of South and Southeast Asian art spanning 2,000 years.

Over a thirty - year period industrialist Norton Simon (1907 — 1993) amassed an exquisite collection of European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century and South and Southeast Asian art spanning 2,000 years.

Over a 30 - year period, the industrialist Norton Simon (1907 — 1993) amassed an impressive group of European masterworks from the Renaissance to the 20th century, and a stellar collection of South and Southeast Asian art spanning 2,000 years.

Over a 30 - year period, industrialist Norton Simon (1907 — 1993) amassed an astonishing collection of European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century, and a stellar collection of South and Southeast Asian art spanning 2,000 years.

Tate Britain is the oldest gallery in the Tate network, which dates back to the late 19th century when the industrialist Henry Tate donated his art collection to the nation.

In the case of the Chrysler Building, the land was originally owned in part and donated to the college by descendants of Peter Cooper, a 19th - century inventor and industrialist who founded Cooper Union.

These were created in response to the heroic aesthetic defining the 19th Century marble busts of Long Island industrialists.

For more than a century, this statue of Peter Cooper (1791 — 1883), a philanthropist, industrialist, and inventor, has watched over the park and school that bear his name.

Opened in 1951 by the niece of Solomon R Guggenheim, the wealthy American industrialist and art collector, the museum presents Peggy Guggenheim's personal collection of twentieth - century art, masterpieces from the Gianni Mattioli collection, the Nasher Sculpture Garden, as well as temporary exhibitions.

Several famous American art museums, endowed by US industrialist - philanthropists, date from around the turn of the century.

The collection of Baltimore industrialist and banker T. Harrison Garrett features works by Albrecht Dürer, Francisco Goya, and Rembrandt van Rijn among more than 20,000 engravings, etchings, and woodcuts ranging from the late 15th century through the late 19th century.

Such a belief system doesn't exist — unless you count some of the musings of industrialists looking at billowing smokestacks in the 19th century as a belief system.