Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single furnished dormitory room costs $5,000 to build and equip; a double room, $10,000. The furniture consists of a brown metal desk with a birch top, a fluorescent desk-lamp, bed form fitting desk-chair, and an easy chair covered with a new simulated leather plastic...
...been intended for. Loss of faith in reason spread to the painters and poets and eventually evolved into such aberrations as Dadaism and Surrealism. However, these were the sensitive areas, and the folks in Sauk Center, Minnesota had not yet been moved by it at all. Joyce had to build upon an ancient myth to get any order into his world, but most of the more modern myths still persisted for the rest of mankind...
...Russians also knew, theoretically, how to build a chain-reacting pile. They were aware that such a pile would transmute Uranium 238 into a "trans-uranian element," i.e., plutonium. They realized that to generate atomic energy, either as a bomb explosion or as peaceful power, would be extremely difficult but certainly not impossible. Two Soviet scientists speculated about what "special devices" would be needed...