Word: propsed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In 1884, Gaudi was handed the job of designing Barcelona's new Church of the Holy Family. Fellow architects scoffed at his grandiose plan, which called for a dozen 328-ft. spires, five domes, five naves, three elaborate fagades and a forest of sculpture-topped pinnacles. Without the usual...
Time Saver. With $6.50 worth of scrap metal, Marvin E. Brown, a mine foreman for Birmingham's Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., invented a new coal-handling device. The company found that the invention, an angled leg for the conveyor belt, saved two-thirds of the time ordinarily...
On either side of the stripped-down fuselage of a Taylor Cub, he fastened stubby wings curved into a smooth semicircle -the bottom halves of two 6-ft.-wide Venturi tubes. Toward the back of each wing he mounted an engine, its propeller tips just clearing the curve of the...
With stage directors, she has the same serious, hard-working approach. Garson Kanin, who directed Fledermaus, suggested that a splendid effect could be achieved if Pat could hold an A while climbing a flight of steps, ending it dramatically as she reached a balcony. Oh no, said Pat, "that would...
Three staffs make up the backbone of the operations. The production staff is the integrating group, handling the personnel, the equipment, the props, and arranging shooting schedules. The direction staff handles the pacing movement of shots, the mood desired, and the length of the shot. Photography staff manipulates the lights...