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Word: wrights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinary cases the young steer apparently rolled up his sleeve, winced, got up, and ran away. Frank Wright Garrison's '94 reaction was more extreme...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: The Case of The Cigar And The Swelling Arm | 9/28/1956 | See Source »

...Chicago, testy old (87) Architect Frank Lloyd Wright casually disclosed his latest high-flown fantasy: a one-mile-high, 510-story office building for the Loop. Topped with a 330-ft. TV antenna, it would be four times taller than the Empire State Building. "It's perfectly scientific, and perfectly feasible," he said, brushing aside questions on how he would get 100,000 office workers in and out of the building on time, or what he would do about the planes that cross the area at considerably less than 5,600 ft. "If you're going to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 10, 1956 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

Edward Stone, the State Department and the Indian government are all pleased with the resulting design. "I think the outstanding thing about it is its calmness and serenity, which an Indian building should have," says Architect Stone. "Frank Lloyd Wright, who never seems to like anybody else's work, told me that this was one of the finest buildings in the last hundred years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Taj Mahal Modern | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...record $19.62 per ton for oil from Persian Gulf to United Kingdom). Ship prices are also following trend, with standard T-2 tankers currently pegged at $3 million v. $2.2 million as late as last April. 1957 PACKARD will be produced despite reports that Studebaker-Packard and Rescuer Curtiss-Wright would drop next year's model. In January, company will start turning out either face-lifted 1956 model or redesigned and upgraded Studebaker bearing Packard name. Completely new model based on experimental Predictor (TIME, April 23) will come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Sep. 10, 1956 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...Supreme Court's anti-segregation ruling brought both new hopes and old heartaches to the South. It remained for fiction to shape the facts into a form the heart could not ignore. This task might well have been undertaken by Negro writers such as Richard (Native Son) Wright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragedy out of the News | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

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