Word: buttress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the bark is stripped off, the wood bleeds blood-red sap that enforces the symbolism. The felled trunks, each with a wide buttress root attached, are carried into the village, where the women greet them with rejoicing as if they were enemy corpses. The women, says Dr. Gerbrands, are more deeply religious than...
However, "Trailways has been exceedingly uncooperative and evasive in regard CORE's charges," the report declares. To buttress this contention it notes at J.W. Powell, New England regional Manager of Trailways, refused to comment on the CORE allegations. The company also refused to send a representative to speak on the controversy at young Democrats' meeting...
...Berlin's famed Robert Koch Institute, does not doubt that Dombrowski extracted living bacteria from the interior of solid blocks of Zechstein salt-though there is still a slim possibility that the salt was contaminated relatively recently by bacteria that entered the crystalline mass through microscopic cracks. To buttress his theory further, Dombrowski is examining salt from even older beds. Last month the University of Montreal sent him samples from Saskatchewan deposits that are 320 million years old. In 20 experiments he found eight strains of living bacteria. Now he has broadcast a worldwide appeal for samples...
...showers of space dust, most meteorologists howled him down. But Welsh-born Bowen is hard to discourage. For eight years, whenever he could take time from his job as chief of the Radiophysics Division of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, he searched for evidence to buttress his argument. He found a hopeful amount, and by last week Physicist Bowen had become something of a meteorological hero. After hearing Bowen talk at the International Conference of Cloud Physics in Australia, Meteorologist Dwight B. Kline, of the U.S. Weather Bureau, announced bluntly: "Dr. Bowen's theory...
...Massachusetts Avenue says, "Enter To Grow in Wisdom." And at the same gate, as you leave the Yard: "Depart To Serve better Thy Country and Mankind." In the Yard, grow in wisdom: outside, serve mankind. And at Radcliffe there is talk of surrounding the quadrangle with a wall to buttress as unconfident identity. There will be a gate, and a similar inscription...