Word: way
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bare but Not Barren. Like the great churches of the past, the new buildings designed by such brilliant moderns as Wright, the Saarinens, Antonin Raymond and Pietro Belluschi are "functional" in that they use the latest structural materials and techniques in such a way as to emphasize rather than conceal the way they were built. As Architect Belluschi tells prospective clients, he loves the Gothic far too much to design a cheap imitation that conceals a steel frame behind an ivied stone facade...
...phenomenon, the Vatican forbade him to hear confessions or officiate at any public occasion. Only after two years of painstaking investigation by doctors and others, did the church finally lift the ban on the grounds of: 1) "the undoubted presence" of the stigmata; 2) Padre Pio's holy way of life from childhood; 3) proof that "miracles have happened in the presence of Padre...
...scheduled North Atlantic flights from January through March, there will be 15-day round-trip fares at only 10% more than the regular one-way fare. Thus, a New York-to-London winter round trip will cost but $385, v. a regular round-trip fare...
Starting next week, T.W.A. and American Airlines will make daily coach trips with DC-45 between New York and Los Angeles at a one-way fare of $126.50 (including tax), v. a regular first-class fare of $181.53 (railroad coach fare...
...Craft Corp. displayed a machine which uses radioactive material to dye fabrics. The fabric is first run through a dye solution containing a harmless uranium compound, then dipped into a photo-sensitizing solution. In a light radiation chamber, the color is "developed" in much the same way as a photographic film, and the pigments become an integral part of the fabric...