Word: circulares
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When the moon was first captured. Dr. Alfven believes, it did indeed curve through space in the opposite direction from the earth's rotation. And, as expected of such a satellite, it drew gradually closer to the earth. Its orbit became circular. About 2.5 billion years ago, the earth-moon system passed through a violent crisis. The approaching moon exerted more and more gravitational pull on the earth's oceans. Tides miles high swept around the globe in a few hours. At last the moon reached Roche's limit,* the closest that a satellite can come...
...From his circular penthouse office on Madison Avenue, Manhattan Real Estate Tycoon William Zeckendorf frequently sallies out on a limb, leaving all his competitors and creditors agape with suspense. For years, people have been expecting Zeckendorf to take a tumble, though he has always managed to regain his balance. Recently, though, Zeckendorf's balancing act has been getting more and more precarious. Last week the Alleghany Corp, complained that Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp, Inc, had failed to pay it $570,000 in back rent on some Denver properties, and rotund Bill Zeckendorf, 57, admitted that his $400 million...
...inside of the Chelmsford granite building has been drastically rebuilt on several occasions and only a small part of the original finish remains. The dining rooms and two kitchens included at the start are gone, leaving only the circular ports through which food was once passed from room to room. The one place in the building which still retains a solid Bulfinch flavor is the old second floor chapel, probably Harvard's most impressive room, now the setting for meetings of the Faculty and the Board of Overseers...
...interplay of levels which has come to characterize many of Le Corbusier's recent buildings is largely missing from the Visual Arts Center. The sculptured gracefulness of the Chapel of Ronchamp and the Phillips Pavilion of the Brussels World's Fair finds itself in an abbreviated form in the circular wings of the center and in a distant sort of way in the sweeping slant of its ramp...
...production and staging stifled the opera's already limited action. A circular riser in the center of the stage grossly limited any movement and all poses became lifelessly statuesque, the acting of an overblown Christmas pageant...