Word: formful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China to mean a softening of the U.S. position. Last week, when ailing Walter Robertson, 65, finally persuaded the President to accept his resignation effective July 1, he got a warm letter from the President, treasured most a sentence that read: "The policies which you have helped develop form a significant part of our broad national policy...
...relative in the Valley of the Fallen. And the discontent that he deprecates is far more than the innate curiosity and passion of the young for novelties. The bulk of Spain's people-including many of Franco's own supporters-are restive. They would like to form political parties other than Franco's moribund Falange, and they already operate underground parties. In the past fortnight the black letter P has appeared on the walls of Barcelona. It stands for protesto, and was put there by Catholics who want the right to organize a public Christian Democratic Party...
...mathematical analysis, the neutrons bounced off the atoms' electrons in patterns that indicate that the atoms have varying shapes. The nuclei of iron atoms are surrounded by a cloud of electrons in almost the classic shape of a globe. But the electrons of nickel and cobalt atoms form cigar-shaped lobes around the nucleus, so that the whole atom looks like a sphere with blisters. Significance of Dr. Freeman's news is that the shapes formed by the electrons may provide an explanation for magnetism, which seems to be caused by "uncoupled" electrons that travel independently as they...
...architecture it comes down to Gropius's statement that a designer "expresses his ideas of form with the technique and material at his command." Therefore in studio design courses, the core of the GSD curriculum, "Emphasis on such visual considerations as composition and proportion is shared by equal attention to the mechanical and structural considerations that influence design...
Therefore, when governments look around for new ways of raising money, their efforts are characterized less by statesmanship than by a desire to find the form of taxation most palatable politically. Most state and local taxes are thus make-shift, time-serving devices, and as the need for expenditures grows greater, many cities and states are paying the price in financial crises like those in New York City and Michigan. Until the politicians stop trying to please everyone at once and instead institute broad tax reforms and increases (as Rockefeller has started to do in New York State), the financial...