Word: spirally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...build an art museum for Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue, he designed what might be taken as a monument to himself. It would be shaped, he said, "like the chambered nautilus." The picture gallery would consist of a quarter-mile ramp, slowly rising in a spiral to a height of 72 ft. where it would culminate in a huge dome...
Eight minutes later, the funnel had curled into a thin spiral, with its tip dipping down to the ground (middle picture). In two minutes more (bottom picture), the funnel had formed a counterclockwise swirl and was ripping up a strip of Illinois...
Prince Louis de Broglie, Nobel Prize-winning physicist: "Maybe the entire universe . . . from atom to spiral nebulae, is nothing but a tiny speck of a much vaster reality...
...based on two arguments. First they say that controls in general are useless, and deny the need for them even in wartime. N.A.M. chief Charles R. Sligh gave the Senate Banking and Currency Committee to believe that corporation taxes and like measures would keep a grip on the inflation spiral. Senator Capchart, no friend of government control, answered by saying that Congress would surely pass controls on "wages, prices, and rents in event of an all-out shooting war." And they are obviousy needed then. The Federal Reserve Board, which under normal conditions sways price trends by manipulating credit rates...
...square window in St. Ann's Church at Normandy, Mo. (TIME, Dec. 15). A standout example of stained glass out of church is Max Hunziker's window for the Zurich Cantonal Hospital. Hunziker's creation, more than 18 by 11 ft., lights a spiral staircase leading to the hospital's main auditorium. It will soon be complemented by another window on an opposite staircase. The themes of the two windows: "Water and Light" (opposite) and "Earth...