Word: doric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After two scoreless periods, Yale forward Beverly Doric blasted a 20-ft. slapshot past senior Nelia Worsley's glove side at 3:27. Eli Lynn Cruishank added a power-play goal at 10:18, making...
Roxbury High is a five-story building of tan stone with Doric columns and statues of Greek goddesses over the green front door and spray-painted first names and last initials around the back. Inside, as classes change, the first thing you notice is that most of the students are black, Chinese, or Spanish and most of the teachers are white...
...would give birth to Christ. In the history of a civilization that abounded in images of the Madonna, Gabriel recurred insistently, whether as the impassive, rhythmically contorted enamel figure on the 11th century cover of the Ariberto breviary in Milan or the rainbow-winged presence, solid as a Doric column, who confronts a submissive Mary in Fra Angelico's Annunciation...
...building than the repository of one of ancient Greece's most famous sites. But the signs of the celebrated stoa-which was about 60 ft. long and 20 ft. wide-are clearly apparent to the trained eye. Still visible amid the rubble are the base outlines of twelve Doric columns that ancient chronicles say guarded the eastern base of the portico. So too are markings from the three walls that enclosed the rest of the building. In fact, the north wall is still lined with remnants of the stone benches on which some of Socrates' judges may have...
...Certainly the Flatiron's architect was at least partly conscious of the heritage. He modeled the building after traditional towers and columns, separating it into three discrete sections: base, shaft and capital. Similarly, America's earliest settlers made a conscious effort to tap the main streams of Western architecture. Doric, Ionic and Corinthian pillars grace the front of many New England homes...