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Word: overnights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps too facile, he has whisked off a skyscraper design overnight, took only 15 days to plan Caracas' Museum of Modern Art, a pyramid that will rest upside down atop Bello Monte mountain. "I study the problem, the arc of the sun, the lay of the land," he said. "Then I mull over it for a couple of days. Finally the idea comes." One result of such fast work: dwellers sometimes complain about the lack of closets or kitchen windows in Niemeyer houses; builders sweat over specifications that often make light of construction problems. At Brasilia the builder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Architect of Brasilia | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...nearly $2,000 in hotel tabs paid by Goldfine. Adams testified that "particularly when driving, it was an accommodation to me to stop overnight on a trip from my home [in Lincoln, N.H.] to Washington and vice versa. Mr. Goldfine on one occasion said to me, 'If there is any time when you would like to stay in a suite which I have in a hotel in Boston, I hope you will occupy it, because it is there, paid for, and I would be glad to have you enjoy the accommodations.' This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Man in the Storm | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...Waldorf-Astoria visits at Goldfine's expense? Adams and his wife once "were invited to stop at a meeting of Mr. Goldfine's business associates," stopped overnight again when "I happened to find myself in New York" on a trip between Washington and New Hampshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Man in the Storm | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...observation of his own failures, he learned to shorten his stride so that he no longer bangs his right elbow against his left knee when he follows through after a pitch. Unnecessary bases on balls and a chronic soreness in the elbow of his salary arm have disappeared almost overnight. "All I throw," says Turley, "is a fast ball, a curve, a slider and a changeup." The record proves the repertory to be more than rich enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stengel's Staff | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...Soviet advance was a typically American one--to spend more money. Enthusiasm for educational subsidies, however, gauged by Congressional action, is flagging. Moreover, a "crash program" in science or mathematics is not the answer. Dr. Henry T. Heald, president of the Ford Foundation, asserts that "scientists cannot be made overnight with any amount of money. They must be produced by the American school system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Dilemma of U.S. Secondary Schools: Democracy's Burden on the Intellect | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

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