Word: within
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enough to hold a Hannibal-sized army. Other points that tally with old descriptions: from Clapier pass, the Po River Valley is visible, and a steep trail leads down in the direction of Turin. Hoyte's next step: to prove the route was suitable for elephant travel within the time taken by Hannibal...
...been for the fact that an officer, who found the briefcase in his way, had just shoved it a few inches to a place behind the thick base of the table and thus provided Hitler with a shield against the blast, World War II might have ended within a few days. As it was, Hitler suffered only a burst eardrum and a bruised arm, was well enough to meet Mussolini at the station that very afternoon. But though the plot of July 20 failed, it later began to haunt the Germans. Were the plotters traitors or heroes? Last week West...
...Grubbe displayed his burned left hand at a faculty meeting. A doctor suggested that anything capable of causing such a reaction in healthy tissue might be used in treating diseased tissue. Another doctor promptly referred a woman with breast cancer to Grubbe for X-ray treatment. Though she died within three months, Grubbe was confident that her tumor's growth had been slowed. And, personally and painfully aware of X rays' dangers, he had already begun devising lead shields to protect healthy parts of the body. Soon Grubbe was treating as many as 75 patients...
...Japan today, there are exactly six color TV receivers in the hands of private owners. But at 60 railroad stations and other public places within transmitting distance of Tokyo last week, hundreds of thousands of Japanese enthusiastically gathered before sets supplied by the Nippon Television Network and watched two hours of daily color programs...
Architectural design at its height creates interior spaces that are just as exciting in themselves as the façades. To enter a magnificent building is like entering a work of sculpture and seeing it anew from within. Yet such excitement is distracting in a museum, where the works, not the walls, are the thing. Le Corbusier, the most sculptural of all living architects, apparently kept this point well in mind at Tokyo. He braked himself to produce a squared-off, surprisingly unelaborate structure. The entrance leads straight through to a large central gallery, from which smaller galleries radiate...