Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Simple, modest and dignified-those were the words I had to go on," Johnson said. His scheme, after six months of study, was indeed simplicity itself. On a one-acre lot still to be cleared, he proposed erecting an open box with narrow openings at either end, "like a pair of magnets about to clamp together but held apart by some powerful force." Material for the 50-ft.-sq., 30-ft.-high sanctuary will be unadorned concrete-"the material...
...sensationalism from the Romantic period, but all of the world's music was not written after 1850. At Christmas time, when there is so much really great and profound music from the baroque period that is especially appropriate, it is criminal that the whole program should come from one narrow period, especially when two of the four pieces are poor choices intrinsically...
Authorities at the federally subsidized Argonne National Laboratories outside Chicago heard of Mickelson's expertise in this narrow specialty, invited him in 1955 to start building experimental computer parts, offered to supply the raw materials. Mickelson figured that the demand for memory cores would be so great that even a small firm could cash in on it. He set up Fabri-Tek in his basement, working nights and weekends while he held his daytime job at Remington Rand. His total investment in the new company was for "some wire, solder, tweezers, and a little pair of nippers-altogether...
...Americans of what the French had said. Franklin was ill at the time and Adams happened to be in Amsterdam, so Jay got the message and he was furious. He had also discovered that Spain, with French compliance, intended in the peace treaty to limit the U.S. to a narrow strip of territory along the Atlantic coast and to take everything west of the Appalachians for itself. It was clear, Jay concluded, that France regarded its alliance with the U.S. as a license to swindle its junior partner-a conclusion powerfully supported, says Historian Morris, by documents preserved...
Junior transfer John Friedman twisted his way to a narrow victory in the dive, but Springfield still...