Word: icarian
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...Downstairs, the weight room features Icarian free weight equipment, two bench presses, an incline press, a squat rack, a cable crossover jungle gym, free weights by Jade, several selectorized machines and other pieces of equipment...
...uplift," such as Powerhouse Mechanic, 1925. He hit the peak of this imagery in 1930, when he began to document that marvel of audacity and skill, the construction of the Empire State Building. As Trachtenberg remarks, Hine's Empire State series, with its daring calligraphy of girders and Icarian figures treading on air, "participates in the making of the tower by serving as its faithful reflection - its self-consciousness, one might say. It is as if the making of the tower, an epitome of the constructive potential of labor, photographs itself." The Empire State is no longer the world...
Minnesota's brash Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey jumped up, expounded his own tax views, and was quickly routed when Millikin said: "That is an Icarian syllogism." Humphrey, looking blankly toward the presiding officer: "Mr. President, that is too much for me." Millikin explained: "In other words, the Senator from Minnesota would pin wax wings on his own back in an attempt to fly. However, because of his unsure base, he would land in the ocean." Understanding dawned on Humphrey's face. Asked he: "Is not that just another way of saying I am all wet?" Millikin just smiled...
...century ago, the tiny vessel Brunswick sailed from the French port of Le Havre for New Orleans with a mixed human cargo. Of its 180 passengers, 60 were ordinary German immigrants, 80 were pre-Marxist communists who called themselves Icarians, and the other 40 were communists who called themselves Trappist monks. The Icarians were coming to the U.S. to build a materialist Utopia, the Trappists to build a monastery where they could contemplate God. The last Icarian Utopia, at Cloverdale, Calif., fizzled out in 1895. Today in the U.S., there are six Trappist monasteries where some 500 monks dwell "above...
...adventurous aviator is debonair, swashbuckling Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, the Black Eagle of Harlem. In the course of his Icarian career he has attempted a transatlantic flight, served in a black Emperor's air corps, planned an expedition to China to fight the Japanese...