Word: construction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could it all be less than beautiful-this vast primeval panorama that flowed so slowly around the hall with its kaleidoscope of ever mingling colors and forms? . . . How could the slow, moving, billowy, syrupy music of the 'eighties fit into this new world picture? Youth had to construct its own rowdy modern music. ... So let Duke Ellington and his black boys blare and bleat and bawl with their saxophones and bull fiddles and muted trumpets syncopating the call of the wild. And it is all right. But it's the same old inner urge, the more we change...
...impressive than the art were the spectacular views from Maryhill's windows of eastern Oregon, the Columbia gorge, Mount Hood and the Cascade Mountains. One hundred miles from Portland, Ore., Roadbuilder Hill's castle can be approached only over the fine winding Northwestern highways he himself helped construct, is probably the world's most isolated art museum...
...children. The snout-nosed gas mask appears. For infants too small for the mask, there is the gasproof container. There are shots of a terrified baby being forced into a container, staring through its big glass pane in panic as he is sealed in. In their back yards people construct flimsy-looking air-raid shelters, decorate them with potted plants...
From a Belgian experimenter Galileo got the idea that led him to construct his first telescope. With the new instrument, which he called cannocchiale ("tubespec-tacles"), he was the first human being to see the satellites of Jupiter, the spots on the sun, the mountains of the moon. In Venice the splendid Doge (Venetian dialect for Duce) puffed up the steps of the Campanile of St. Mark's to take a telescopic gander, immediately doubled Galileo's annual stipend of 500 florins ($30,800 at the 1940 gold price...
...become more and more self-sufficient at the expense of lowering their standards of living and losing what free enterprise they have left. Therefore our foreign trade will be destroyd in any case, they say. But it is obvious that we should do everything in our power to construct a system for holding and increasing our foreign trade. The reciprocal trade agreement is a powerful weapon in lowering the tariff barriers of other nations as well...