Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of Italy's most radically modern structures. He studied photographs, the designs left by Ammannati, notes left by the head mason. Under his direction, the Arno was dammed, and the river bottom was searched for fragments left after the explosion. Studying the shards, Gizdulich deduced that the ancient masons had used special chiseling and cutting implements now unknown. Gizdulich designed similar tools and had them made by hand, taught a group of artisans to use them. The pieces of the old bridge were lovingly fitted and pieced out with new stone taken from the same Boboli Gardens quarry...
...beds and 3,800 babies in and out of its 75 bassinets. When its 41 maternity beds were full, mothers were crowded in the halls. Into rooms for four beds, six were squeezed. As many as four patients were simultaneously examined in tiny rooms with only screens for privacy. Ancient, ill-designed and inadequate ventilating systems helped to spread germs...
After the chorus boomed out It's a Grand Night for Singing, a parade of buggies, wagons, ancient cars, a color guard on horseback, judo wrestlers, weight lifters and other performers swarmed about a huge birthday cake in Chicago's International Amphitheatre. Before more than 11.500 onlookers, a series of historical tableaux reincarnated yesteryear's fiery crusaders (Billy Sunday, Dwight Moody) and tycoon benefactors (Marshall Field, Colonel McCormick). plus scenes from the Civil War, the Great Chicago Fire and old Skid Row days. It was all part of the jazzy ("Y's UP") 100th anniversary celebration...
...paving, preparing a 230-ft.-long reflecting pool to receive its fountains. Electricians are adjusting the lights that will shine on the 130 Belgian apple trees due to burst into bloom at about the day the fair opens. Nearly as vast as the width of Rome's ancient Colosseum, which inspired it, combining dignity, symmetry and an inviting holiday glitter, the pavilion is the finest showcase the U.S. has built abroad at a major world's fair. Spectacular in its daring engineering and inspired in its architecture, it is already recognized as the No. 1 U.S. exhibit...
...estimate that the university doubled its order), the four-sided grille had an overpowering monotony, a fact Stone now acknowledges. He plans to re-study the top of the building, particularly he screen above the roof. No such reservations cloud Stone's opinion of the house resigned on ancient classical lines around central court, or atrium, which he completed this month (with Interior Designer ?. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings) for Bruno and "Josephine Graf in Dallas, Texas...