Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...built to grow. Both the lab building and the library can triple their size outward from the college's core. One pedestrian expressway points toward Netsch's yet unbuilt art and architecture building, a multilevel, polygonal structure within which students will go from floor to floor in spiral fashion as well as by vertical stairways. Even the more massive structures that rim the campus are open to the city around them. "We use the buildings as gateways," Netsch explains. As urban as the new subway station built to disgorge students right onto one of its walkways...
...left. Pulled outward by centrifugal force and downward by gravity, a fast-rolling plane would be confined to a circular path high against the outer, steeply sloping part of the runway. As its speed decreased, centrifugal force would lessen, and gravity would pull it in a slowly descending spiral toward the lower, more horizontal section...
Currie proposed government controls to avoid a wage-price spiral. He added that mechanized agriculture, compulsory primary education, national health programs, and public housing projects would insure "additional work and income from hither-to unemployed resources...
Arthur Smithies, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, felt that some restrictive monetary measures may be needed to prevent an inflationary spiral...
...house is no Xanadu; it is built in the seemly red brick style of the region, but there is something extravagantly not right about it. Imported craftsmen have constructed a spiral staircase behind a secret panel in the wainscoting, and an eight-foot brick wall topped by spikes encloses a 30-acre park...