Word: frames
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard team had the upper hand throughout the game and literally monopolized the puck during the second and third periods. The five goal rally in the middle frame left the Tigers in such a sorry state that the playoff was announced over the loudspeaker system just before the third period started. During the last period, Princeton was on its side of the blue line 80 per cent of the time...
Following Order No. 1, Architect Gilbert designed a Corinthian temple, flanked by two utilitarian wings for offices, waiting rooms, conference chambers, etc. Following Order No. 2, though the building has a steel frame, its masonry walls are strong enough to support it should every steel beam rust away. Following Order No. 3, the building is almost entirely of marble...
Finally it was decided that the ceiling, gilded, carved and painted at great expense, was too dark. So last week a white canvas frame was stretched over it. During the summer the ceiling will be repainted and by next autumn Architect Gilbert's son and successor may have produced a courtroom in which the New Deal's severest critics will feel more at home...
...Special Theory blew up the notion of an absolute frame of location or "hitching post" in the universe. Two observers moving relatively toward each other had to carry their own frames of reference. The two would not agree as to the separation of events in either space or time. But the interval-the separation of events in four-dimensional space-time-would be the same for all observers if their relative speeds were constant...
Henry Hobson Richardson died of Bright's disease on April 27, 1886, two years after the first steel frame building had been erected in Chicago. Unlike his admirer, the late Louis Sullivan (TIME, Dec. 9), Richardson had nothing to do with the development of the skyscraper, but because he was the most important U. S. architect of the 19th Century, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week hung a gigantic portrait of him in its lobby, published a scholarly critique of his work,* and displayed photographs and plans of his most important buildings all over the ground...