Word: truss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...needy areas. The help, however, is meant to be unobtrusive, and should not -via bulge, seam, ridge or twanging wire -make itself conspicuous. The U.S. foundation industry has looked for years for a brassiere that will support and uphold the female figure (and its component parts) without betraying its truss...
...either. The Breakout is an almost classic story of what happens to the poor devil who knows that neither his wife nor children really need him. When the victim tries to do what seems to him the intelli gent thing, Gary's knowledge of people is used to truss him up like a sacrifice...
...mechanical equipment. Each floor is hung like a bridge span between the piers. By doing away with interior columns, Pei gives the building open space which can later be converted into either a library or an auditorium. The windows are ovals. Explains Pei: "Since the outer walls are trusses, I had to obey the stress lines developed in the truss. Oval windows were designed because they most closely follow the stress lines, like windows in an airplane...