Word: slabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather worsened. But the third evening, a search pilot picked up unmistakable signs of debris from the sunken B29: a cluster of red and yellow boxes, a slab of aluminum, a bobbing flotsam of abandoned baggage. Another search plane was just heading back to base when its tail gunner thought he spotted a light. The plane turned back and at that moment the castaways decided to risk one of the last flares. "We knew then," said the search pilot, "that we had found them...
After deciphering the document and verifying its authenticity, Dr. Eulalia Guzman, the National Museum's chief of historical research, led an expedition to Ixcateopan. There, beneath the altar of Santa Maria de Asuncion, diggers uncovered a huge stone slab with a large oval copper disc. Under a small cross at the top were the words Senor y Rey. Beneath them was the name Coatemo (one of the alternate spellings of Cuauhtemoc...
From early morning until midnight the pile driver banged, ringing in the heads of downtown office workers, rattling the windows in Kaufmann's department store, keeping guests awake in the William Penn Hotel, echoing through the narrow canyons of Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle. Blasting intermittently shook the slab-side Mellon National Bank and Trust Co. which had hardly trembled through the depression...
Architect Neutra and his fellow members in the cult of the clean line and glassy expanse are as hopelessly enslaved by their own fetishes-the concrete slab, the flat roof, the mantel-less fireplace-as were their predecessors of the gingerbread and rococo schools...
...Harootian's Sea Bird also owed much to the stone it came from-a 4-ft.-high slab of onyx. Pocked with chisel marks, it successfully simulated the feathery plunge of the bird; polished, it represented the wet scales of the fish. Der Harootian had deliberately exaggerated the size of the fish and taken vast liberties with the shape of the bird. The fact that they seemed far less abstract than they were in actuality was a measure of the sculptor's power to create illusion without slavish copying...