Word: core
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back to form a solid, steadying core are Captain Ed Smith and guard Bill Hickey. Smith pulled a leg muscle in the second week of practice and thus was prevented from scrimmaging for two weeks. In yesterday's game, however, in which the varsity beat Providence College, 71 to 62, the six foot seven conter scored 24 points, although his floorwork was rusty...
...Johnson's Wax) dedicated a building with little visible means of support. A 156-ft. glass & brick tower, it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright as the latest thing in laboratories. The building has no foundation directly under its outside walls. Instead, the foundation is a central core of concrete embedded 54 ft. into the ground. The core, which contains elevators, heating pipes, etc., supports the 15 floors in cantilever fashion, thus allows maximum daylight illumination on all sides. Said Wright: "Up in the air is the natural place for a laboratory . . . Our industrial system has believed so much...
...Goya fought bulls and men with equally savage joy; had he written his autobiography, it could have been as proud and action-packed as Benvenuto Cellini's. He lived in a time known variously as the Age of Reason and the Age of Enlightenment, but, Spanish to the core, he substituted allegories for reason and sardonic darkness for enlightenment...
...Roxane into taking his voice for Christian's. Such broad strokes of old-fashioned footlight hokum seem glaringly magnified by the realistic eye of Director Michael Gordon's camera. The hard scrutiny of the lens also shows less mercy !han the stage for Cyrano's soft core of unblushing sentiment, unstinted gallantry, unending heroics. In this harsh light, middle-aged moviegoers who loved Cyrano in their youth may feel that they are looking at an early sweetheart who has aged 30 years...
...literature, Wilder believes, whose core is the independent and imaginative spirit of pilgrims and immigrants, of free men "committed to an idea, not an environment...