Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...directions, what's all the fuss about conducting? To the average listener, it might seem that a mechanical metronome would serve as well as a human one. There are other conscientious conductors, just as selflessly anxious as Toscanini to express the composer's intent. Why does Toscanini tower over them...
...story, to be brief, is as follows. Across the river, destroying the somewhat aesthetic composition of the Business School and the Stadium, a metal tower is going up. Rumor has it that the tower is for television or something of the kind, but there is no reason to believe that insidious little story. Surely there is enough madness in the world already without a misplaced francophile trying to rival the Eiffel Tower with the sole aid of an erector set, thereby destroying Harvard's architectural symmetry...
...gradual removal of the tangled barriers, prohibitions and nationalist restrictions. At Geneva last year 18 nations had managed to write a draft charter for the proposed International Trade Organization, a project which, in the somewhat startling words of Sir Stafford Cripps, "had never before been attempted except at the tower of Babel." At Havana, where the nations convened last November to mold the Geneva draft into final shape, Babel's spirit still prevailed...
Because he had little chance to paint in oils, Daumier has been called one of the most frustrated of artists, but cartooning was his chosen art. He never expressed any yearning for the ivory tower; the struggles of the marketplace were meat & drink...
...TIME, Feb. 9], they would still be sitting on their skids at Kitty Hawk. ... It was quite impossible for a 12 h.p. motor to lift that plane off the ground. It was launched by a catapult, which consisted of a heavy weight hoisted to the top of a triangular tower and attached by ropes and pulleys to the front of a monorail car running on a wooden track. The plane was balanced on the car, and as the engine revved up, the weight was released. The car hurtled down its track and fell over as the plane became airborne...