Word: knoll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...furniture. George Nelson's "coconut" chair uses a sheet-metal shell over which leather or plastic is stretched to get a three-dimensional object that is pleasing to look at from any direction, even from the bottom. Standing with the cubist purists is Mies-trained Architect Florence Knoll (widow of Designer Hans Knoll). Designing simple benches, storage cabinets, desks and tables, each rigidly engineered and precisely designed, she has built a modern setting that quietly reaffirms Mies's famed dictum that "less is more...
...Washington, also served as a peacetime major in the Army engineers; Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, sometime lieutenant-colonel in the 20th Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War; General Jonathan Wainwright of Corregidor. On a brooding hillock General John J. Pershing lies in lonely aloofness. Another small knoll is occupied by the grave of Lieut. General Arthur MacArthur; near by, a plot is reserved for his son. Humbler graves reflect the grimness of war and the greatness of American history: "James Parks, born a slave," or, simply, "Unknown...
Expert. In Corvallis. Ore., Professor Paul X. Knoll of Oregon State College reported sadly that his wife had enrolled in his course in argumentation...
...upper Connectient Valley into the sleepy little town of Amherst, Massachusetts, one is immediately impressed that here is a New England Village still in the original. Shade trees dot its broad, green common stretching away to the right and the left. Clustered among the trees on a knoll sit a group of New England type brick buildings dominated by a white-spired chapel...
Somewhere between a handful of stores at the far end of the common and the buildings on the knoll the town of Amherst ceases and the college, one of the top educational institutions in New England, begins. Beneath this quiet exterior lies the social and academic activity of a vigorous but somewhat conformist college community...