Word: verticale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Claude Dornier, 85, German aeronautical engineer whose career kept him in the front rank of his country's aircraft industry for five decades; in Zug, Switzerland. Dornier designed the world's first metal airplane in 1911, built thousands of bombers and fighters in both world wars, and...
The history we learn is vertical, intellectual and clear; hence unreal. Can we study history horizontally, affectively and chaotically?
Unfortunately, the proposed screening committee is likely to have great trouble deciding which military projects are appropriate for the special labs. For example, all members of the special review panel judged the Poseidon program, now that it is out of the basic-research stage, improper for a university-connected lab...
After taking a dirt road across the desert toward Qumran, where the first Dead Sea Scrolls were found, the Pikes missed a turn and wound up instead driving down a gray sandstone wadi (dry creek bed). When large rocks kept them from going farther, they tried in vain to turn...
When no existing furniture quite matched the modern grandeur of his Barcelona pavilion, he designed his own tables, stools and chairs in leather, steel and glass-which have since become classics in themselves. For Manhattan's Seagram Building, in its muted bronze and pink-glass majesty the country'...