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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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-ive in ME.
-if(e),
-yf(e) — (O)F.
-if, fem.
-ive :- L.
-īvus,
-īvum, fem.
-īva, suffix added mainly to pp. stems, e.g.
actīvus,
-īva ACTIVE,
nātīvus inborn,
NATIVE, but also to pres. stems, e.g.
cadīvus falling, f.
cadere, and to sbs., e.g.
tempestīvus seasonable, f.
tempestās TEMPEST. Eng. formations on vb.-stems often assume the appearance of being of the pp. type, as
adoptive,
selective; see also
-ATIVE. Some L. adjs. were used sb., as
captīvus,
fugitīvus; of this usage there is a wide extension in mod. langs. and Eng. (
adjective,
explosive,
missive,
sedative).
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Los Angeles Preserves American Architecture Jewel
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 10/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...commissioned the New York architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue to design a large central library on a prominent downtown site. Goodhue produced a magnificent mix of...well until the 1970s, when the Goodhue building's age and limited...
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Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates. (architectural firm)
Magazine article from: Interior Design; 8/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...in 1924 by New York architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and completed in 1926, was created...city a true sense of place. Goodhue's edifice is a three-story...spirit of deference, was through Goodhue's lobby where all means of...
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WHERE THE SPIRIT LIVES Ornate or simple, intimate or spacious, old or new, the houses of worship around Boston share a common goal: to transport us to the realm of the spiritual.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/21/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Dorchester Episcopal 1894 Ralph Adams Cram and Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue Ralph Adams Cram designed churches all over the...decorative vocabulary of Cram and his partner, Bertram Goodhue. Bottom left: MIT CHAPEL Cambridge Interdenominational...
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Los Angeles Central Library: a 67-year-old landmark undergoes a by-the-book restoration and receives a 328,000-sq.-ft. addition. (includes related article on the Tom Bradley East Wing of the library) (Reconstruction Project Awards)
Magazine article from: Building Design & Construction; 10/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...intricate mosaic of forms and details by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, the library's original architect. Goodhue's genre-bending design, variously...research and conserve unique elements of Goodhue's design. In addition, the architect...
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Answer Man: The Word on Science
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/6/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...www.nationalacademies.org/arts.) Architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue didn't want to design just another typically columned...with the Lincoln Memorial across the street. What Goodhue came up with was a style he called Alexandrian...
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Where have you gone, Louis Sullivan?: will America recover from its fifty-year bout of Europhilia? (European influences on American art and architecture)
Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine; 2/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Nebraska State Capitol designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (1869-1924), a Connecticut...architecture on .the job in Boston. Goodhue had helped popularize the Gothic...or provincial, had considered Goodhue, like Cret, to be a great architect...
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Flanagan's Boys Town had good reason to call Nebraska its home
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 8/8/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...the Nebraska state capitol in Lincoln can be seen from miles away. Selected from a nationwide competition, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue designed the structure, which was built in four phases over the existing capitol so as not to disrupt workers...
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Urban nightmare
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 6/21/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...refurbished 1920s Biltmore and the magnificently restored and extended Public Library, designed by the great Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. But to no avail: most Angelinos never go near the city's heart - it is full of poor Hispanics, after all...
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Los Angeles' very special libraries: Finding something for everyone.
Magazine article from: Information Outlook; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Angeles' downtown. Designed in the early 20's by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, its unmistakable pyramid profile, decorated with...to decorate the 36- by 36-foot ceiling in the Goodhue Building's first floor. Now imagine yourself in...
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St. Bart's Loses Bid to Build Skyscraper; N.Y. Cathedral Plans Fall Fund-Raising as Factions Seek to Heal Rift Over High Rise
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/23/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...cathedral, with its adjoining community house, terrace and garden, was designed by noted American architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and completed in 1930. At one time the congregation included such prominent New Yorkers as John Jacob Astor...
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Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue , 1869-1924, American architect, b. Pomfret, Conn. He studied...in this firm but left it (1914) to begin independent practice. Goodhue was particularly successful in evolving a distinctive style for his...
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Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor (1869–1924). American...the partnership was dissolved, and Goodhue designed the Cathedral of the Incarnation...Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool, which Goodhue saw being built in 1913), St Vincent...
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Cram, Ralph Adams
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...fame and attracted the gifted Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (1869–1924) to...renamed Cram, Wentworth, & Goodhue (1892–1914). After...the partnership, and Cram, Goodhue, & Ferguson rose to national...
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Cram, Ralph Adams 1863-1942
Book article from: American Decades
...his partners at the firm Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson (later Cram and...Boston, but it was not until Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue became a partner in 1891 and...caused a rift between him and Goodhue, who left the firm in 1913...
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The 1920s: Fashion: Deaths
Book article from: American Decades
...architect who supplied the plans for the New York Times building on Forty-third Street, 5 October 1921. Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, 55, architect primarily known for his Gothic churches, including the chapel of the United States Military...
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