Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...married Mary Peabody, a sister-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne and a member of a family of educational pioneers, in 1843 (his first wife died in 1832 after two years of marriage). He served four years in the U.S. House of Representatives, later became president of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and there carried his theories into the field of higher education. He died...
...brilliant, semi-abstract windows: one with a dove to symbolize the Holy Spirit and the other with a fish to symbolize the Christ. More somber were Ignatius Geitel's windows illustrating the Apocalypse, one of which showed an apocalyptic horseman with a greenish face, red hair and yellow halo...
...Dana L. Fuller Jr., 26, a California trucker, whose supercharged red and yellow diesel went to 168.98 m.p.h. for one kilometer, 199.32 m.p.h. over the mile...
...treated." Daylight flows through photoelectrically controlled skylights, and this "provides new uses for window walls. Since they are not used for lighting, we have used them as display areas, with shelves for classroom exhibits." The school is heated through pipes under the floors, and plastic classroom ceilings are yellow to offset the grey Northwest skies. Furthermore, says Burkhard, "Foster is completely designed for earthquake resistance. You could empty the school in 15 seconds, and anyhow, there is nothing but plastics to fall on the kids' heads...
...Architects Stevens and Wilkinson designed Atlanta's E. Rivers elementary school so that each classroom would open directly outside. They used cherry red brick both inside & out, painted window trims bright yellow, built paved spaces outside of primary rooms for outdoor teaching. Said the Atlanta Constitution when the school opened: "Not a gargoyle in sight . . . The end of the peanut-butter sandwich...