Word: bay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maybeck populated the Bay Area with houses, but his best-loved work is the largest pink elephant ever built, San Francisco's towering Palace of Fine Arts. Erected for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 and conceived as a mighty Roman ruin, the palace's lofty dome and far-flung colonnades set above a reflecting lagoon are meant to convey, in Maybeck's words, "sadness, modified by the feeling that beauty has a soothing effect." Seen by 10 million visitors over the years, it has become the most popular public monument in California. Today its plaster...
...bulging (6 ft. 2 in., 256 lbs.), blue-eyed son of an immigrant Lithuanian shopkeeper, Chesler grew up in Peterborough, Ont., quit university to go to work on Toronto's Bay Street. As a customer's man for the brokerage firm of Draper Dobie & Co. Ltd., he showed a talent for picking the right stocks, later grew rich underwriting dozens of Canada's new mining projects, chiefly those of Ventures Limited, the mining colossus...
...educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Felixtowe, England, later at the Lycee Moliere and the Sorbonne, Paris, and Sommerville College, Oxford. She received her degree in "PP and E" (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics). Her book titles reflect her interest; among her published works are The West at Bay (1948), Policy for the West (1951), Faith and Freedom (1954), and Interplay of East and West...
...high school, Graney was a high scorer in the Bay State League. Two years ago he was starting center on the Freshman team, and last winter he played wing on the varsity's second line...
...help humanity. His secret weapon is desoxyribonucleic acid. Injected into a plant or tree, this chemical will increase phenomenally the size and quality of the yield. An enterprising Italian government official named Pozzo feels that this is just the cure for the barren poverty of southern Italy. Above the Bay of Salerno, on some terraced soil blessed by Pozzo's cardinal uncle, Harry Wesley sets out to grow a super...