Word: domes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...separate floor slabs one above the other.'' His building has only two doors (both on the outside; none between rooms), one long spiral window, which winds like the floor in gradually expanding, gradually ascending circles. The museum's wide-open interior is lighted from a dome of pyrex tubing...
...Domes & Nooks. Coaches, diners and "tavern cars" will be equipped with the General Motors designed "Vista Dome" (TIME, June 18)-a glass-enclosed elevated dome that protrudes 18 inches above the car roof. Under the unbreakable, heat-resisting Thermo-pane glass, 24 passengers will have an unobstructed view of the Rockies, can sun bathe in soft lounge seats. For Dome dining under the stars dumbwaiters will lift meals from the kitchen below. After dinner, tables on the lower floor of the diners can be dropped into slots, the space cleared for dancing...
...Cincinnati's astonishment, the Trollopes proceeded to erect what one traveler described as "the great deformity of the city" - a brick bazaar with "Gothic windows, Grecian pillars ... a Turkish dome, and Egyptian devices." Therein, they planned to sell the gewgaws of Manchester and Birmingham to the savages of Cincinnati...
...seamless concrete and glass, rising 100 ft. At the top, the structure will project 24 ft. beyond the ground level building-line. The interior of this huge upended cone will consist of a continuous, gradually rising, gradually widening, ramp picture-gallery ¾ of a mile long. A great glass dome will top the last wide spiral sweep...
Famed for his work as prosecutor in the Teapot Dome scandal, genial, wide-mouthed Owen Roberts was a big-time Philadelphia corporation lawyer when Herbert Hoover called him to the high court in 1930. Promptly he found himself the deciding vote between the right and left factions of the pre-Roosevelt tribunal, as often as not sided with the left's dissenters. But as the turbulent 30s went by and seven Roosevelt appointees took their places on the bench, he became the court's chief defender of precedent and legal stability...