Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main purpose in using the design was to avoid inner supports and thus provide an unimpaired view. The sloping walls of the sanctuary, which is 60 ft. high at its peak, support each other; the principle is the same as that which causes a piece of firm paper to stand when it is creased and placed on edge...
...capital of the world of art. Great art revolutions spilled out of Paris; great art masters stormed the barricades there, ruled as tastemakers for more than two centuries. In mid-20th century, with France drifting toward ever lesser status as a world power, how does the Ecole de Paris stand...
...Louis Banker William A. McDonnell, 63, chairman of the city's First National Bank and director of McDonnell Aircraft Corp., of which his brother James S. McDonnell Jr. is president. An Arkansas cotton merchant's son, who peddled papers as a child "because I wanted to stand on my own two feet"-and now keeps them both conservatively on the ground-Banker McDonnell graduated (summa cum laude) from Vanderbilt University in 1917, worked up through Little Rock banks before moving to St. Louis in 1944, where he became the First National's president in 1948, its chairman...
...unpredictable mechanism that controls the outwardly simple scales of justice during a murder trial. A fact that has not harmed sales is that the case involves the rape of a luscious doll (she is so sexy that the defense lawyer orders her to wear a girdle on the witness stand so as not to antagonize prudish jurors...
Stuffed birds under glass bells no longer sit on modern mantelpieces, and the 47 books of Ouida no longer stand between ebony bookends. Yet Ouida, "almost the last of lady authors," is not just a Victorian-Edwardian period piece. Monica