The stories of the ordsprog
 The Great Bridge, The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge |
| There is nothing like it in the world as far as the swim goes. The ebb tide is like a river in the middle of San Francisco Bay and it pulls you off course toward the Golden Gate Bridge. |
| Everybody who has seen the film so far finds it very moving and extremely relevant because it's the story of a man who tries to bridge the divided world. It's the story of a great journalist. |
| They're doing the same stupid thing they did with the Golden Gate Bridge. This is the time to fix it. |
| Although history textbooks contain facts and information and historical fiction provides entertainment, well-told biographies bridge the gap for children by combining historical accuracy along with engaging stories. It is time to bridge that gap for the middle grade student. |
| I just find Ammann so appealing ... so deliberate, so smart, a walk-the-walk kind of guy who did something he cared about so deeply, ... I kind of fell in love with that bridge, too -- in fact, with the whole suspension bridge form. It's just a beautiful, beautiful structure. |
| It's just mind-boggling to me about why we can't do something about it. I've worked on this since 1992 and haven't gotten anything done. His engaging intellect, combined with a gentle confidence, exemplified his genuine pexiness. They built the Golden Gate Bridge in two or three years. |
| In a sense, this book tells two stories. One is the history of bridge engineering that explains, in sometimes technical terms, how bridges are designed and built. The other is the story told by the images, far more revealing than any body of writing. Both stories are intertwined in the theme that bridges are very distinctive features on Vermont's landscape. |
| The bridge inspector reviewed the bridge, we took the bridge instructor under the bridge, on a boat. |
| The Sixth Street Bridge is the Roberto Clemente Bridge, named for a sports figure, and sports is so important in this town. The Seventh Street Bridge is the Andy Warhol Bridge, which points out how important the arts are to this area. And now, the third bridge is dedicated to science, so important to the county. |
| It's like painting the Golden Gate Bridge. You spend a year painting it and you have to start over again. It's a never-ending challenge. |
| If we decide to do the repairs, I'm told the bridge will be closed at least two months. Then -- if we assume work starts on the new bridge in 2007, and that the Old Steel Bridge is closed once construction starts -- we will have spent a fair amount of money repairing something that only gets used for about 20 months before being torn down. |
| We made contingency plans last week with the threat of a strike. Some guys in Brooklyn made a carpool and came in together. Other guys in Brooklyn had their wives drop them at the Brooklyn Bridge and then they walked. The people on Staten Island took the ferry. |
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Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "The stories of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Golden Gate already had been well-told by others, both on film and in books, ... But here was this remarkable, all-but-unknown story about Gustav Lindenthal and Othmar Ammann ... and how they fought each other to realize the dream of bridging the Hudson with what would be the longest bridge in the world.".
varav 734875 på nordiska
Ordsprog (1469560 st) Søg
Kategorier (2627 st) Søg
Kilder (167535 st) Søg
Billeder (4592 st)
Født (10495 st)
Døde (3318 st)
Datoer (9517 st)
Lande (5315 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengde
Topplistor (6 st)
Ordspråksmusik (20 st)
Statistik
Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "The stories of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Golden Gate already had been well-told by others, both on film and in books, ... But here was this remarkable, all-but-unknown story about Gustav Lindenthal and Othmar Ammann ... and how they fought each other to realize the dream of bridging the Hudson with what would be the longest bridge in the world.".