Word: aridity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wrote Mumford: "In this building, the movement that took shape in the mind of Le Corbusier in the early 1920s-and that sought to identify the vast and varied contents of modern architecture with its own arid mannerism-has reached a climax of formal purity and functional inadequacy. Whereas modern architecture began with the true precept that form follows function . . . this new office building is based on the theory that . . . function should be sacrificed to form...
...botched handling of the dismissal itself left cadets confused about their status and their future. Technically, their dismissal was "under honorable conditions," though in fact they were branded otherwise. The cadets' case was best put by Harold Loehlein, honor cadet, captain-elect of the 1951 football team, arid president of the first class. Said...
...almost gone, so the bureau has developed new tricks. Last week three of its greatest projects were close to completion. Each of them has a different trick for making rivers behave, and the three tricks combined form the engineering strategy that can give the U.S. new frontiers in the arid parts of the West...
Bureaumen believe that eventually 50 million more acres can be irrigated west of the Rockies, and that this would feed an additional 75 million people. Even after that, there is plenty more. East of the Rockies lie large areas of semi-arid land that could increase their production mightily. It would be quite a job to pump the Mississippi into Texas and Oklahoma, but the more enthusiastic bureaumen believe it could be done. ¼We and our contractors,¼ they say, ¼enjoy pushing rivers around...
...reserves his greatest contempt, and his most telling scenes, for the kind of people who he presumably hopes will come to see his movie-the packs of ordinary citizens who crowd by car, bus and train to the arid site of Minosa's entombment and settle down cheerfully in tents and trailers for a morbid spectators' holiday. With them come radio and TV showmen and a neon-lighted traveling carnival, with Ferris wheel, pitchmen, hamburger stands and a hillbilly band bawling a specially concocted ballad, We're Coming...