Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office in Rome. His first spectacular chance to prove his worth came when he won a contract to build huge airplane hangars for the Italian air force. To avoid using scarce wood and steel, Nervi created a design in reinforced concrete with prefabricated vaulting, produced vast arched structures 130 ft. wide and 330 ft. long, with no interior columns, no steel girders, no expensive form making...
...Princeton, New Jersey, resembles more closely a clubhouse or perhaps a country school than it does the most high-level institution of learning in the world. In this respect, it blends very well into the general land scape of the area which is, of course, dominated by that vast, educational country club, Princeton University...
...General Education and shallow understanding the Institute for Advanced Study provides a refreshingly restricted and wise venture into the vast field of learning. Its astonishing success speaks well for thorough, understanding and advanced scholarship.J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER...
...variations in the intensity and color of light. Thus, heavily symbolic or metaphysical language must be abandoned because elaborate symbols seem absurd when taken literally as they appear on the screen. Even with the resources of dialogue, music, and the dance--which the film envelops--there is still a vast internal world beyond that of a pageantry that must be indicated. How to indicate reality simultaneously with one or more particular images of it, that is what makes photography...
...that the Administration go farther toward explaining the true state of the nation's security to the people, by relaxing the secrecy curbs on reports of missile progress. From his travels afield Nixon, along with Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn, reported that the President still had a vast fund of popularity and respect-but that he was not making the most of it. Most of all, Nixon sensed that the rest of the U.S. was ready to join Washington in going to work...