Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among Nervi's most spectacular creations is the Turin Exhibition Hall, which features a 300-foot concrete shell that is only one-and-a-half inches thick. He is also the designer of the Olympic Sports Palace in Rome and is one of three designers of the UNESCO building in Paris...
...give the impression to people a hundred years from now of the subject himself appearing before them, then and there. Obviously I don't attempt to do it through photographic resemblances, but rather through our own passionate expressions..." The richness, the pervasive light, the bold and vigorous color, the thick spontaneous strokes--all give an extraordinary vibrance to Vincents' paintings. His portrait subjects seem alive before us, yes--but so do his rocks, his bed, his dirty shoes...
...long column of army trucks drove 27 miles north of Saigon, straight into an arc of Red-controlled territory that provides a safe Communist 50-mile "supply corridor from the Cambodian frontier to the province of Phuoc Thanh. As the first light of dawn slanted down through the thick forest in the district of Ben Cat, the truck column came to a dusty halt, 600 troops of the Vietnamese 5th Division poured over the tail gates and fanned out across the harvested rice fields and rubber plantations to flush out Communists. Typically, the Viet Cong faded away before the massive...
Moving Core. After keeping a radio watch on Jupiter for months. Morris and Berge calculated that its Van Allen belt is a doughnut 300,000 miles in diameter and 80,000 miles thick. It is several times as radioactive as the earth's and is held in place over the planet's magnetic equator by a magnetic field that must be several times stronger than the earth's. Since the earth's magnetic field is believed to be formed by the motion of its metallic core, and since Jupiter proved to be surrounded by magnetism...
Instead Piccard designed a free-cruising "underwater balloon" which he named a bathyscaphe.- It had a small, thick-walled steel sphere to resist the pressure of the depths and a thin-walled hull filled with light, almost incompressible gasoline to give it buoyancy. For cruising, it used electricity from storage batteries to drive a small propeller...