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Word: decagon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than city officials had expected. Moreover, when the fair ends in November, it will leave the city with a new 2,700-seat opera house (in the $11.9 million Washington State pavilion), convention facilities, the Canada Park, the Boeing Amphitheater (as a civic center) and the Bavarian Gardens, a decagon of glass, fir and larch housing a German restaurant. In return for the $78.4 million cost of the fair, the city already boasts 7,200 new jobs and a $200 million boost to the economy. More important, perhaps, Expo 74 will attract millions of people to a city that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A Place in the Sun | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

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