Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recession is taking on the "saucer" shape of 1953-54. The signs grow that we are on the bottom of the saucer, but it may take some time to cross the flat part of the bottom...
...amount of glass that could be used, the architect called in British Structural Engineer Felix Samuely, and together the team produced a vast, stunning edifice in the form of a fish. Though not fashioned on such a preconception ("This interpretation was made after the design"), the shape honors an old symbol* that early Christians, pushed underground for their heretical beliefs, defiantly scratched on the walls of the Catacombs. Harrison's main purpose in using the design was to avoid inner supports and thus provide an unimpaired view. The sloping walls of the sanctuary, which is 60 ft. high...
...ENGLAND, whose chronically ill textile industry has been in bad shape for years, is in deepening recession despite a flood of new electronics plants. Unemployment claims are 100% higher than last year at this time; auto sales are down sharply; and retail business, which was ahead for January (up 3%), took a sudden 29% drop during the February snows, has not yet recovered. Yet mortgage foreclosures are still at a minimum, and such a sensitive economic barometer as New England's winter-sport industry shows a 12% increase...
...reply to letters from 600 Texas constituents in a single day, leaving only 45 unanswered. Cries Johnson: "There's 45 people who didn't get the service they deserve today." When host at his LBJ Ranch near Johnson City, Texas, he often serves hamburgers cut to the shape of Texas. But an unavoidable symmetrical flaw seems to bother him. "Eat the Panhandle first," he urges his guests...
Cille alone of the family has the strength to break out of the shell, but she is marked by its color and shape. The story of growing up and twisting free is outstandingly well told by Novelist Feibleman. The book's most noticeable fault is a sluggish pace, but while the narrative occasionally lacks interest, the characters do not; if the novel lacks the spare silhouette of art, it has, abundantly, the lumpish shape of life...