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...travertine floors, slabs of Algerian onyx (which alone accounted for 20% of the construction cost), green Tinian marble, etched glass, a grand red curtain. The big leather-and-steel Barcelona chair remains a popular modern icon. The pavilion was small and stood for only eight months, which makes its feat--converting the world to a new kind of architecture--even more extraordinary. It was intended by the German government to clean up the country's image internationally, to be a quintessentially modern thing, stripped of gemutlich nostalgia. It was meant to deny history, and Mies complied...
...Captain Shannon Byrd emphasized the magnitude of the feat by comparing this season to previous years. "Penn was a team that beat us last year, but this meet wasn't even close," Byrd said. "I find it hard to believe that we're Ivy champs considering that it wasn't even a goal of ours until we beat Brown [an 83-57 victory at Blodgett on December...
...dedication of the first all-electronic digital computer. On that day in 1946, ENIAC in 20 seconds performed a mathematical calculation that would otherwise have required 40 girl hours to complete. Newspapers headlined the performance. It "solves the unsolvable," reported the Philadelphia Inquirer. Indeed, many experts mark ENIAC's feat as the beginning of the modern computer...
...feat is remarkable, considering that only two years ago the Crimson posted a 4-7 season record-with a dismal 2-4 league mark-tying for fifth with Cornell in the seven-team conference (Columbia began women's swimming a year later...
...This was a great win for us," said Crimson Coach Bill Cleary. "I think five Ivy titles in a row is quite a feat...