Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Pilot George Jensen got the bomber up to 20,000 ft., the crew topped off the rocket plane's tanks with 45 gallons of "lox" (liquid oxygen), fuming and fiercely cold. That much lox had evaporated since the tanks were filled on the ground, and this climax flight would need every gallon. At 25,000 ft., three men lowered Bridgeman, bulky with his high-altitude gear, into the Skyrocket's cockpit...
Almost ten times as powerful as any of their predecessors, the new American eyes will be installed in high-altitude observatories at Climax, Colo. and on Sacramento Peak near High Rolls, N. Mex. Their cameras will soon be tracing the progress of the sun across the southwestern U.S., helping practical astronomers to study the origin of cosmic rays, to work out new methods of long-range weather prediction, perhaps to uncover atomic secrets from the sun's hot heart...
...Nathan the Prophet, speaks loudly and carries a big stick. All can be made well-and obviously will be-if David will return to the prayerful, God-fearing ways of his youth. While David prays, the movie unaccountably wanders off on a tangent in flashback, interrupting its climax for a blow-by-blow account of how young David slew Goliath, played by hulking (6 ft. 8½ in., 320 lbs.) Wrestler Walter ("The Polish Angel") Talun...
Thus, last week, the film industry recorded its first no-fake train collision, the supercolossal climax of Paramount's old-time rail saga called The Denver and Rio Grande. The D. & R.G. itself donated the equipment, due for scrapping. Producer Nat Holt staged the wreck as a fictional incident of the railroad's struggle with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe some 70 years ago, to push the first railway track through Colorado's Royal Gorge. Producer Holt had only one misgiving about his $165,000 real thing: "It looks so good, people will probably think...