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Working with a mock-up in Finland, Aalto passed on everything, down to the individual blue ceramic tiles that line the lobby, specially designed the laminated Finnish birch furniture and the reedlike gold-dipped light fixtures and lamps. Following his principle that a straight line is the shortest distance to boredom, Aalto made walls undulate outward to make the whole room a stage for the view, and paneled them like a painter with pale American ash. "Wood," says he, "is close to human experience." Showing off Aalto's virtuosity with wood, these slender columns are made of tiny wooden...
However, a spokesman for the opposition, Benjamin Gary, a partner in the landscape architectural firm Morice and Gary, said that the bridge would cast a maximum shadow of approximately 65 ft. This shadow would occur, he explained, on the shortest day of the year, Dec. 22. Before and after that date, the shadows would be shorter...
...bedroom house in Maracaibo, also provides free medical care, while advertising contracts with Gerber and Klim give meat and milk. The big problem is telling them apart, though their mother insists that this is no problem at all. "Otto is the lovingest," she says. "Juan José has the shortest fuse. Robinson's the fattest, Mario's the tallest and Fernando is the most easygoing...
From the Widener Chamber the Tunnel strikes out in three directions. The shortest spur goes east under the basement of Widener, Houghton, and Lamont Libraries. A second arm (the one we had been in) runs north to Weld (where we had entered) and beyond to the Law School and science laboratories. The third section goes south to the Houses and the Business School. We followed this for a short distance--it looked just like the ear-her part of the Tunnel until we came to another smaller chamber. "Here," said Harry, "is our own underground railway." The "railway...
...Council's shortest meeting in a year, plans for new investigations were announced, including a study of the information which goes into a student's student's record at Harvard, and the people who have access to this record...