Word: basin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sand casting Susse employs a sand found only in the Seine basin, which becomes almost doughy when moist. It is best for highly polished surfaces. The sculpture is solidly packed with sand, which is then baked dry to make a mold. A second mold is also fashioned, roughly one-eighth inch smaller than the original mold. The molds, shaped in halves, are placed one inside the other and then joined. Finally molten bronze is poured into the thin space left empty between...
Vermont conditions are as follows: East Burke, Burke Mt. 2 to 6 base, 3 packed powder, skiing fair to good. All lifts operating; Shelburne, Killington Basin, 6 to 10, one new powder, poor to fair; Stowe, Mt. Mansfield, 12 to 24, 2 new powder, fair to good...
Congratulations on the absorbing and accurate account of present conditions existing in the Amazon River basin...
Composer Morton (Fall River Legend) Gould at an ASCAP dinner in the visitors' honor. At week's end, Shostakovich and his countrymen rolled into Manhattan's cavernous Basin Street East to catch some summit-level jazz presided over by Old Maestros Benny Goodman on clarinet and Red Norvo on vibraharp. But if the Russians really dug the decadent, blood-tingling music, they showed it only with polite applause, an occasional twitch, no joyous faces...
Work v. Tears. Despite the influx, the vast Amazon has only a sprinkling of people. The League of Nations once reckoned that the basin could support 900 million people, but only a scant 4,000,000 occupy the area, two-thirds of them caboclos, who live in huts, fish and loll in hammocks. Japan is one source of newcomers who seem immune to the easy-living lethargy that strikes native Brazilians and Indians. At Tomé Acu, below Belém, the Japanese have helped to carve out one of the world's biggest pepper plantations. At nearby Guama...