Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward the end of his life, as he lay dying in an abandoned post office in Centerport, L.I. that he had bought as a studio-home, he watched the sea gulls flying past his window. "Their beaks," he wrote, "look like ivory thrown slowly through space." In words, it was the quality and response to nature Dove had spent all his life attempting to capture in paint...
...that a helicopter could lift them and fly them to advance bases, so cheap that they could be left behind if necessary when the troops moved on. (The Marine Corps nicknamed the disposable domes "Kleenex houses," called them "the first major basic improvement in mobile military shelters in the past 2,600 years.") The U.S. needed a trade fair building in Afghanistan that could be flown in by DC-4; Fuller provided one that could be assembled in 48 hours. Covered with polyester Fiberglas, geodesic domes proved just the thing for the DEW Line radomes. Says he, with the satisfaction...
Thereafter the Crimson kept pounding away at the enemy goal. Center forward Roger Tuckerman picked the ball up from teammate Bill Rapp, faked past the Gymnasts' fullback, pulled the opposition's goalie out of the cage, and fired for the varsity's third score...
Beck accused Harvard's voting delegates of "lack of preparation and of good judgment" at the annual National Student Congress in the past few years. He also claimed that the Council has "misrepresented" several functions and services of the NSA, as well as the costs of membership. He thus criticized the stand taken by Andrew Warshaw '59, who felt that the resolutions of the congress were handled with a "slapdash method...
...Harvard has been a leader in the past, and we would like the College to remain in the NSA. However, the decision is entirely up to the students," Beck stressed...