Word: oval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things that look more or less like food, and it can be educated by a system of rewards and punishments, such as slight electric shocks. The octopus readily learns, for example, that a square card poked at it must not be touched. With it goes a shock. But an oval card should be seized; right behind it comes dinner...
...building. The piers also hold all the elevators and mechanical equipment. Each floor is hung like a bridge span between the piers. By doing away with interior columns, Pei gives the building open space which can later be converted into either a library or an auditorium. The windows are ovals. Explains Pei: "Since the outer walls are trusses, I had to obey the stress lines developed in the truss. Oval windows were designed because they most closely follow the stress lines, like windows in an airplane...
Bibleland archaeologists have long suspected that the tiny Arab village of el-Jib eight miles northwest of Jerusalem hides fascinating secrets. The village stands on an oval man-made mound, and the experts think that it may cover Gibeon, an ancient city whose inhabitants, according to the Book of Joshua, made a deal with the invading Israelites and so were not slaughtered, only enslaved. For four years, Professor James B. Pritchard of Church Divinity School of the Pacific, whose passion is checking the historical accuracy of the Old Testament, dug at el-Jib. He found many interesting things, including...
...Princess, married once before, is the former Lee Bouvier, and like her equally attractive sister, Jackie Bouvier Kennedy, is now expecting her second child. Rhapsodized Vogue: "Her clothes-life starts with one enchanting, instantly-visible asset: her beauty - dark-haired, with widely spaced dark-brown eyes and a serene, oval face . . . She seldom wears hats, but when she does she likes them large-brimmed and fem inine, though never fussy. If she has a fashion-signature, it is simplicity." . . . Reminding televiewers that the last echo of rigged TV quiz shows has not yet died away, a Manhattan grand jury called...
...scaffold in the infield leaned so far forward that the whole structure toppled with agonizing slowness, killing two and injuring 79. Wheel to wheel, lap after lap, Rathmann and Ward kept up their fight, hitting up to 180 m.p.h. on the straightaway, wheeling around the turns of the great oval at 135 m.p.h...