Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...textile designs grew out of some plaster and netting she picked up in a rubbish pile. In her crusade for sharp, dramatic line ("skyscraper silhouet") Mme Schiaparelli persecutes the button with morbid zeal, has substituted all manner of gadgets in place of it, including metal coat fasteners in the shape of dollar signs...
...Montana baby was taking shape in its mother's womb. Along came a cyclone which shocked the mother and insulted the embryo. When the baby was born it was a hermaphrodite...
...striking east from Ankara toward Persia and nothing but a caravan trail running west from Teheran toward Turkey. There is no through railway yet but the motor road over which His Majesty zipped from Teheran through Tabriz and Erzerum to the Turkish coast at Trebizond is now in prime shape to become an artery of heavy trucking and carry Persian carpets on a direct route to Europe. For trade with Russia and possible defense Persia is in course of being spanned by the line from Bandar Shapur via the Anglo-Persian oil country and Teheran to Bandar Shah. The line...
...point back & back to a Garden of Eden, unrecognized by Science, which offers instead a "Lemurian world ... a scene wherein the tortured larva of the human being . . . endured the nightmare of fear and lust which made up his life, in desperate conflict with scaly mountains of flesh in the shape of flying lizards and giant newts." Says Author Mann: Science leads here into a blind alley; this was not the beginning. "We have sounded the well of time to its depths, and not yet reached our goal: the history of man is older than the material world which...
Under the supervision of Arnett McKennan '87 who is also are chairman of the Freshman Red Book, the Union decorations are rapidly taking shape. The scheme is to be worked out is a modernistic manner in red and blue cellophane, and is expected to provide novel and striking affects...