Word: ade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...responded with a clear, simple idea: "Essentially a department store is a big, empty box built around a central circulation core, with the walls closed to provide ample storage." In a move away from glass, he sheathed the box in travertine, employing hexagonal forms to give the façade the overall pattern of a honeycomb, set in slit windows (Rotterdam shoppers like to check materials in the sunlight). Here and there he opened up the curtain wall with bands of windows for the interior restaurant and executive offices...
...country and since." Jack Soble, also known as Peter, Abram and, in earlier years, Abromas Sobolevicius, arrived in the U.S. in 1941 by way of Japan. He and Myra became U.S. citizens in 1947. Soble worked as a dealer in animal hair and bristles, but behind his façade of respectability, the U.S. charged, he served the Kremlin as a spymaster in a ring that operated in the U.S. and Europe for more than a decade. Among the spies working under him in the U.S., charged Justice, was an immigrant named Jacob Albam, who came from Soble...
Spruced-Up Façade. What Lord Radcliffe's constitution offered Cyprus was, in fact a façade of self-government carefully designed to preserve what the British in India used to call their paramountcy. The British government declared its readiness to transport a "reasonable" number of Cypriots to the lonely Seychelles Islands to discuss the Radcliffe constitution with Archbishop Makarios, exiled leader of the enosis (union with Greece) movement...
...imaginative sponsors, "Harvard in Houston" would be a good way for the University to discharge any obligation it might feel to expand, while maintaining and improving its existing facilities in Cambridge. The vision, they say, was one of a New Canaan, of the kind of institution that George Ade once said could give a man "everything that Harvard does, except the pronunciation of a as in father...
Behind the somewhat sham façade of force, a deadly serious game of consequences was being played. The Egyptians are in serious trouble over keeping Suez Canal pilots on the job. Right after Nasser took over, the old French company shrewdly offered all foreign pilots a three-year salary guarantee (average: about $11,000 a year) in return for a declaration of loyalty to the company. All but 40 of the 205 skilled navigators are foreigners-including 61 French. 54 British, two Americans. At least two-thirds signed the pledge...