Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corbusier's chapel in rough concrete and white plaster began to take form atop Haut Lieu, Ronchamp villagers threw up their hands in horror. The Walls, instead of rising straight upwards, sloped inward or outward like sets for a surrealist movie. The ceiling sagged like a tent ceiling. The main church tower, looking like an ocean liner's funnel, and two lesser towers served only as light wells for chapels within...
...answer thousands of letters that pour in daily, handling magazine, tract and book distribution and keeping books on the evangelist's thriving financial affairs. On the road, another staff of twelve rolls across country in eight stainless-steel truck trailers. Their cargo: a 200-by-360-ft. tent that Roberts claims is the largest evangelistic tent in the world, an aluminum preaching platform that can hold 60 people, a 60,000-watt lighting and public-address system and sundry other equipment worth...
...revival meetings by warming up the audience with a session of lively hymn singing, then launches into a hellfire sermon, storming up and down the platform with microphone in hand. When he finally asks the unsaved to come forward, hundreds troop down the aisles past the shiny aluminum tent-poles. During the service Roberts also asks for contributions, which may average $2,000 for an audience...
Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Ford agreement is the camel's nose under the tent. No one can doubt that the camel will work its way into the tent. Whether in fact the principle it has established produces the benefits anticipated, or starts the American economy on the road to stagnation depends in large part on the resilience of industry and its ability to react to new conditions...
...Class of 1930 invaded Essex County Club yesterday and fought a brief but inspired battle with 1,400 lobsters (each red monster weighed in at a full 1 1/2 pounds. Tusseling under the white circus tent, on the golf course, and in the tennis courts, the members of '30 were in their finest hour...