Word: framed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until the middle of the 19th century that builders fully understood and applied the use of steel in tension on a calculated basis . . . Roebling began to hang the Brooklyn Bridge on a spider web of steel cables in 1868 . . . Major William LeBaron Jenny designed the first true steel-frame building in Chicago in 1883 . . . In the spring of 1896, Frank Lloyd Wright built a wooden windmill tower at Spring Green, Wis. It was slender and 60 ft. high, built of two-by-fours and wood sheathing anchored to a heavy stone foundation. The lightweight wood construction was designed in perfect...
...unable to meet the asking price. But he was so taken by the picture that he finally offered in exchange for it a clock, two Chinese vases and a painting of the Spanish-American War. The discovery came when he started cleaning his dusty acquisition. Between the frame and canvas, he found a small slip of paper with the words in French: "Jean Jacques Casanova...
...booklet describes FCDA's sketchy tests held last spring at Yucca Flat, Nevada (TIME, March 30). Two "typical" frame houses, densely populated with department-store dummies, were exposed to the heat, radiation and blast of an AEC "nuclear diagnostic device" on a 300-ft. tower. In their basements and dug into nearby desert were various shelters, also inhabited by dummies...
...Senator Is Born. Lyndon Johnson was born and bred to politics. His grandfather, Sam Ealy Johnson, Indian fighter and cattleman, and his father, Sam Ealy Jr., a backslapping rancher and real-estate man, were both members of the Texas legislature. When Lyndon was born, in a little frame house among the pecan and sycamore trees along the banks of the Pedernales River, grandfather Sam rushed out to tell the neighbors: "A United States Senator's been born today...
...northern corner of Worcester, Mass. (pop. 203,486) in the late afternoon, mercifully missed most of the city's three-decker tenements, but struck full on a housing project area in suburban Great Brook Valley. There, the brick walls of apartments stood solidly, but roofs were ripped off. Frame houses were reduced to piles of splintered rubbish, or so scattered that only a few recognizable fragments could be found. Before morning, morgues and hospitals were crammed with 87 dead and dying. Eight hundred were injured; 7,000 were homeless, and property damage was reckoned at $75 million...