Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cossio delights in explaining the subject matter of his finished mural. The crystal sphere at the bottom represents the human soul. Within it is a castle symbolizing the Church Militant. Spiraling up around the sphere are martyrs, saints and dignitaries of the Carmelite order. Borne amidst them on a shaft of light are St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross,* welcomed from above by the Madonna, and Child...
...seemed that the atom-already split, measured, analyzed, and prodded by great machines-had few secrets left. Scientists were almost agreed that the atomic nucleus (one-trillionth the size of an atom) is a solid sphere. Now Stanford University Physicist Robert Hofstadter and his assistants have examined the nucleus and found more space in the atom's heart than anyone had guessed...
...civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy...
Architect Saarinen's auditorium is as simple and modern as an airplane hangar; he sees it as a huge, concrete shell, one-eighth of a sphere, planted on the ground at three points. Advantages of the triangular dome, according to Saarinen: speaker and audience seem closer together, space and materials are saved. Inside the auditorium are two levels, a lower for a small theater, an upper for a large, 1,200-seat hall in which students will sit under a sky of white, sound-reflecting "clouds" hung from the dome. Total estimated cost...
...searches, and patient patrols in ranch country through the four border states. The wetbacks remain undiscouraged. A good many, smartened up by experience, now try to go as far north as Chicago, Detroit, Toledo, or the apple orchards of Washington and Oregon. Once beyond the patrol's real sphere of activity, a lucky Mexican can live and work for months or years without detection...