Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dramatic Club, in two others set to music at Dunster House a couple of weeks ago, in another that was broadcast on WHRB, Kopit has revealed no startling point of view that seems original or significant. His achievement so far lies in his technical excellence, in an ability to construct characters and plots that are credible, and in a talent for speaking in a lyrical and pleasing voice. That is no mean feat...
Seminar delegates generally agreed with King's statements but suggested that the first year of college is primarily a "destructive year," in which the student discards old ideas. Only in the second year, they felt, did the student begin to "construct a new philosophy...
Like Eisenhower and the atomic bomb, Montreal never amounted to much until the Second World War really got going. The power elite of the town consisted largely of Calvinists who combined a shrewd commercial instinct with an outpost gentility that led them to construct large Presbyterian churches and to dress for dinner...
Near the domed "Idea Building" will be a fan-shaped, multilevel exhibition hall, glassed in and covered with an accordion-pleated aluminum roof. Between the two buildings, the U.S. plastics industry will construct an all-plastic pavilion made of 70 interlocked plastic sections shaped like hexagonal umbrellas. Separate from both will be a display of 21 U.S. auto models, a pool for U.S.-made boats, and a Circarama similar to the 360° movie screen that proved a hit at the Brussels World's Fair...
...headquarters for the world-wide satellite optical tracking program Smithsonian attracted a great concentration of top scientists and mathematicians to its scattered facilities on Garden Street. Its growth has been so phenomenal that plans have been made by the University to construct and rent to Smithsonian a large center on Observatory Hill. The Harvard College Observatory itself has more personnel engaged in IGY work than any astronomical observatory in the country. The Observatory, with its special stations in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, is the greatest single producer of solar data, vital to IGY research in solar-terrestrial phenomena, such...