Word: circularity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...next time the gravy on your circular tray wanders into the lettuce, you can blame Gropius. Walter Gropius professor of Architecture, helped to design the trays last year as the finishing touch to his Graduate Center...
...Fort Bragg, N.C. this week, the Army Field Forces are testing a new parachute which may all but eliminate it. The new T-10 chute has a canopy two feet larger (30 feet) than the chute now in use (which slows the rate of descent) and, instead of being circular, is shaped like a soup bowl with an extended skirt around its edge (which cuts down on the pendulum-like motion of the parachute...
Certain to stay are such masterpieces as the circular Adoration of the Magi (see picture), which was begun by the great and devout 15th Century Florentine, Fra Angelico, and finished by his more worldly junior, Fra Filippo Lippi. Renaissance Scholar Bernard Berenson surmises that Fra Angelico painted the radiant Virgin and Child and the background figures, and that Fra Filippo is responsible for the sharply characterized foreground figures on the right. Other standouts in the collection are Benozzo Gozzoli's Dance of Salome and Beheading of St. John the Baptist, a grisaille (grey monochrome) frieze by Giovanni Bellini, portraits...
...when "Functionalism!" is the war cry, the circular tray has certainly fallen early on the battlefield, Let us give it a quick burial. Caldwell Titcomb...
...color is not harmonious with the interiors of the dining halls, and the circular shape fights with the predominantly rectangular character of the halls and their furnishings (not to mention Leverett's trapeziform phenomenon...