Word: nave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...development of the mine formed most of the church. Over the years, three narrow tunnels. 70 ft. high, were driven parallel to each other for 500 ft. Eight short cross-tunnels of the same height were then driven at right angles to the main shafts. The result: a central nave lined with two rows of eight huge columns, and flanked by an aisle on each side. The vaulted appearance, where the arched tunnels crossed, readily suggested a cathedral to many visitors. The idea took hold, and three years ago the Bank of the Republic, which operates the Zipaquira mines, assigned...
Gonzélez did not try to convert his rough-walled cavern into a conventional church interior. At the inner end of the parallel tunnels, where the final cross.-shaft formed an end wall, he mined out an apse -a rounded cave in line with the nave. He paved the innermost 150 ft. of the nave and aisles, wainscoted the wall and pillars in brick or limestone...
Before rehearsals were over, the monks had begun serving coffee and wine to the artists and technicians. Stagehands set up their scaffolding in the nave, and regular church services were held in a side chapel...
This week, as Goodwill celebrated its 50th anniversary, it could point to a record matched by no organization in the world In its 101 U.S. plants, it has employed thousands of handicapped workers repairing or renovating cast-off articles for sale by Goodwill. Otherwise the workers would nave had to depend for support on relatives or the community. In so doing, Goodwill has shown private industry that handicapped workers can often do as good, and sometimes better, work than normal workers. Industry has taken the lesson to heart. About 30% of the 17,545 handicapped men & women employed by Goodwill...
...week, a man in an overcoat climbed to the lectern of St. Paul's Cathedral and pointed a pistol toward the great dome. No one made a move to stop him. Two shots, shattering the gloom of the church, made a noise like an artillery barrage booming across nave and transept. For twelve seconds the reverberations echoed...