Word: glasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Treatment of the building's interior walls varies greatly on each floor. Some walls are covered with colored tile, others with brick or stucco design, still others with mahogany battened strips. Corridors on all but the first floor are bound by sheets of opaque glass. In every part of the building the designers attempted to achieve a sense of three dimensionality, Aspasquella noted...
...addition, Menzel said, it was imperative for the observers to shade their eyes with something stronger than ordinary sunglasses--fog photographic film or smoked window glass (smoked by a candle in sunlight...
...wriggles and a Henry Mooretype nude as a prelude to dinner, and on the wall of the dining hall a graphite with its protozoic forms provides the subject for half the table conversation. To the passer-by on Mount Auburn Street the people on the other side of the glass walls seem to be holding a picnic...
Though a shade short of complete, Quincy is indeed thriving; and if its visiting detractors depreciate its bare rooms and its stern modernity and term it a glass menagerie they do so with a touch of envy...
Breakproof Glass. A new line of glassware that is virtually breakproof-and if it does break, leaves no jagged edges-was put on sale by St.-Gobain of Paris at Gimbel Bros. The glass can be transferred from a subzero freezer to a 600° F. oven without cracking. Price of a twelve-piece tumbler...