Word: decks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...multi-image, partially animated view of science and how it got that way. In 1965 Eames prepared a memorial exhibit of Nehru, his life and his India, including the problems of technology. He changes even a pack of cards into a design problem: his House of Cards Picture Deck is made up of beautifully patterned photos that have slits so that one can build a house of herbs and spices, spools of thread, Victorian English pill boxes or Chinese baby firecrackers. Charles and Ray Eames restore order to their world with their problem solving...
Yesterday, the Red and Blue exploded to a quick deck-length margin off the stakeout and had taken a full-length lead by the 500-meter mark. Harvard, which was trailing Navy as well at that time, was rowing at 36, and although that cadence was holding the Quakers' lead steady at one length, It was not moving the Crimson any closer...
...harmful effects of the late rearrangement were scarcely visible as the Crimson opened up a deck-length on the Tigers after 500 meters and broke the race open with a power 20 near the 1000-meter mark...
...peeled off properly. Aquarius, the lunar module that had served as savior instead of explorer, unzipped easily. The command unit Odyssey touched down within four miles of the U.S.S. Iwo Jima. Helicopter recovery ticked along as if automated. Soon Lovell, Haise and Swigert were on the carrier's flight deck, hearing Rear Admiral Donald Davis say, "We're glad you made it, boys." The ship's chaplain said a prayer of thanksgiving, and the three astronauts joined him. In Houston, Marilyn Lovell touched the universal mood when she said: "It was beautiful...
...Rowing at a 36 for the body of the race, the Crimson increased its lead over M. I. T. to a deck length by the 500 meter mark of the 2000-meter race, and had made it a full length at the halfway point...