Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...zoning law has influenced the direction of modern architecture. By making set-backs from the street at certain heights in crowded districts of the city in order to provide air and sunlight in the streets and for smaller buildings, a new shape has been imposed upon architects. But even with this restriction, the space left cannot be completely utilized since the pile must continue to taper to satisfy the eye. The American Radiator Building which is built of black brick rises to a height of 200 feet where a gilded tower, illuminated at night, seems to float in a hazy...
...pound crews, several House eights, and innumerable Freshman barges took advantage of the smooth water and element skies yesterday to travel up and down the river. As yet there has been no shake-up in either the 150 pound or Freshman crew squad, but Coach Bert Haines will probably shape his tentative heavy and 150-pound boats before the end of next week...
...precious loot. Pressed into military service, such pouched thieves serve as carriers of small documents. They develop their throat pouches by partially swallowing a pellet tied to a string. The training begins in childhood, continues for years with a bigger and bigger pellet, until a useful pouch takes shape...
...labyrinth of companies. He had failed to get the loans. He did not look forward to a meeting he had called for Saturday noon to discuss his companies' financial position with their leading executives and certain international bankers. When on Friday his doctor told him he was in poor shape and should watch his heart he became very depressed. Saturday morning he arose, dressed, wrote three letters. Then, while his associates and bankers were growing impatient at his tardiness, he went to his bedroom, undid his waistcoat, lay down on the bed, put a bullet through his heart...
Architecturally Dunster is not the chef-d'oeuvre of the Messrs, Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott. Its triangular shape and the necessary mass of chimneys would prevent that in any case. But it is at least a symmetrical and coherent whole and ranks second to Lowell as a good example of the Georgian style. Its location on the river adds to the beauty but makes for long walks to the Square. The tenements in the back, housing countless Saturday Evening Post vendors, obviously do not constitute an asset...