Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...architecture blossoms out in billowing forms of reinforced concrete, many a modern architect is turning back to study the work of the handful of pioneers who blazed the way for modern shell structures. One of the foremost and least known is Engineer Eduardo Torroja y Miret, 59. A short (5 ft. 4½ in.), bald-domed Spaniard, Torroja was throwing wafer-thin slabs of concrete up into space as early as 1933. His race-track stands, soccer stadiums, marketplaces, churches and aqueducts are only now getting the recognition they deserve as ancestors of some of today's most spectacular...
Trial by Fire. What has kept Torroja largely unknown is that most of his work is to be seen only in Spain. But the very fact that Spain is woefully short on steel supplied the driving force behind Torroja's exploration of concrete as a material that could be both cheap and strong. The son of a Catalan mathematics professor, Torroja trained as an engineer at Madrid University, then worked for five years as a contractor before finally deciding that "the structure of concrete cannot be figured mathematically-it is much stronger than the mathematician can prove...
...M.I.T.'s interest, Thompson often executes orders over a period of several weeks or disperses them widely. M.I.T. never puts more than 5% of its assets into one company, or more than 25% into one industry. Since it buys for the long pull, it is not bothered by short-term fluctuations. "When the market turns down," says Dwight Robinson, "we just try to ride...
...bookkeeper, from assistant head bookkeeper to assistant secretary, from assistant treasurer to treasurer to vice president to executive vice president and finally, in 1948, president. He dressed like a banker, in severe greys and blues, lived where the bankers live, out among the rolling lawns and towering oaks of Short Hills. He married, raised two children, and when his wife of 25 years died in 1945 married again...
...mustached Scot who much preferred to spend his time on the bank of the Thames. The Old Lady of Thread-needle Street, with a comfortable ?40 million worth of bullion in her vaults toward the end of the last century, could well afford an officer who set records for short hours and long absences (due to illness), occupied himself with punting, sculling and solitary walks. It was another activity that made his fellow Citymen uncomfortable: Kenneth Grahame was a literary sort, who wrote essays about paganism and short stories about children...