Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody expects them to win. Even Halsey, with all his optimism, hopes for nothing better than a fifth in the ten team contest. But that fifth is a plenty big order...
...remarkable to discover how many insidious implications, probably unconstitutionalities, and vicious vaguencesses Attorney-General Barnes has been able to be fined ten thousand dollars for employing a maid in Dunster House who had expressed approval of the United Nations. The bill provides, in other words, for the punishment of employers of guilty persons. It also makes any employee--not only teachers, susceptibe to guilt. And it deems approval of communist party . . . doctrines" to be illegal. But it does not indicate what these "doctrines" are, and consequently support of the U.N., which is advocated in the Communist Party constitution, could certainly...
...Rain. Most of the projects shown have not progressed beyond the blueprint stage. But the cumulative evidence of Wright's designs-almost all of them planned during the last ten years-proved that he remains the most creative of living architects. In its introduction FORUM declares that Wright is "designing (and this is much more our tragedy than his) not for life as it is in our own perilous time, but for life as it can be-and some day will be." "I have $13 million worth of [building] lined up," Wright complained, "and can't build anything...
Among the FORUM'S few photographs of actual buildings were shots of Taliesin West, Wright's winter headquarters in the Arizona desert, which after ten years is "still under construction" by his students. Wright admits that the white canvas ceiling is likely to leak, but it is "translucent and attractive beyond expression." He considers light and space as important to houses as the roof itself...
...ten men who nailed down these 37 points, five won their events. Automatic Sam Felton, the Philadelphia strong-boy, put on another exhibition in the 35-pound weight throw, breaking the Field House record by two feet with a left of 55 feet, 71/4 inches...