Word: marvelously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That Thomas Watson's "THINK" may sometimes fall down the wrong chute is exemplified by the IBM building on Place Vendôme, that marvel of 18th century Paris...
...light flooded over the pale walls and pillars of rosy pink. Air conditioning filtered out the dust, kept the temperature at an even 75°. Along one end of the chamber was a gleaming plate-glass observation window, through which mere humans-attendants and sightseers -could watch and marvel...
...economy (with their sons driving tanks instead of trucks or plows) and higher taxes rather than an era of peace which has brought greatly reduced taxes, the abolishment of war, and has added 10 million citizens to the Social Security rolls. What the Eisenhower Administration has accomplished is a marvel of efficiency . . . Are we to see the plans and program of President Eisenhower ruined so that we may return to another Democratic regime in 1956? And to another war, as we have had in every Democratic Administration in this century? Only in that way can we have their kind...
After hearing the arguments of Young and the N.A.A.C.P., Delaware's Vice Chancellor William Marvel ruled that the ten Negroes "have a clear and legal right" to attend the Milford school. But that decision was obviously not the end of the affair. At week's end, Milford's white citizens were beginning to mutter again, and Bryant Bowles was still around to keep them aroused. "When the Negroes walk in," said he. "the whites will walk...
...blue water came to light [and] now the glossy pewter utensils reflect the most subtle gradations of color in the robes of the apostles, the roseate or deep red brilliance of the wines shines transparently in the glasses. [All this] must have struck Leonardo's contemporaries as a marvel of naturalism. Even now, after a century of Impressionism, he still seems modern and revolutionary...