Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local store-owners say they feel victimized by a boycott here when the real dispute is in the California fields. Nevertheless, the battle-lines are being drawn Gallo and the local distributor plan to fight UFW and its student sympathizers with lawyers and ads. The retailers are trying to hold onto an increasingly difficult position as Gallo sales drop...
When residents in the Agassiz neighborhood north of the Law School saw Harvard development plans this summer, they weren't very pleased to see the red lines drawn around their community...
...Passed in 1965 but blocked through nine years of litigation and defiance by the largely Irish Catholic Boston school committee, the law was finally repealed this spring, but by then the issue was in the hands of the federal court. Judge Garrity ordered desegregation to begin under a plan drawn up by the state board of education...
Good Shepherd Church of Alexandria, Va., was once the embodiment of suburban Catholicism. The cavernous cinder-block building itself resembled a supermarket plunked down amidst an affluent neighborhood by some careless zoning board. The nine-year-old parish's membersinp list, drawn largely from the close-cropped and constantly changing ranks at the Pentagon and nearby Fort Belvoir, had initially been compiled from the local welcome-wagon files...
Precise Images. Most of Codex Madrid I is filled with exquisitely fine engineering drawings: designs for self-releasing hoist grapnels, frictionless bearings, clock escapements, wire-making machines, worm drives and so on. For Leonardo, the drawn image was more precise than the written. One of the striking things about the machines in the Madrid notebooks is how they prefigure the future history of formal engineering draftsmanship without becoming schematic diagrams. They are conceptions rather than blueprints, but conceptions that one could take to a factory and have built tomorrow. More over, they are conceived as a series...