Word: cube
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crews at Westover's Officers' Club. Her reporting was finished after midnight, and it was 5 a.m. when she began wiring it in. For TIME'S exclusive story of adventure in the Arctic-and an example of reporting at its best-see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Ice-Cube Rescue...
...have some similar effect on higher animals, including humans. If such a process is discovered, not much DNA will be needed. The entire supply of DNA that could control the heredity of the next generation of the human species (several billion individuals) could be put in a cube one twenty-fifth of an inch on a side...
...decades the men of modern ' architecture and design have been perpetuating a plain world made of the cube, the cage and flat glass. Now they have begun to find their world pretty stark. Seeking inspiration for more richness, variety and delight, designers and architects have developed a new, absorbing interest in the fanciful work of men they once scorned and reviled, including a relatively obscure Spanish architect named Antoni Gaudi. For a report on this forward-through-backward trend, see ART, New Art Nouveau...
What has happened? The fact is that the world of the cube, the cage and the austere glass façade has begun to look pretty stark to the men who have been perpetuating it. The trouble is lack of richness, variety and delight, and the result is monotony. Architects and designers who recognize the problem are checking on themselves, re-examining the very style against which they once rebelled. They are searching for clues to the missing elements in much of mid-20th century architecture and design...
Putt yourself together, excellent biped-On page 71 you call a "cube" What should be a parallelepiped...