Word: contained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seattle had been well primed for this week's opening, with 22 billboards, 500 posters in store windows, and 6,000 letters for schoolchildren to take home to their parents. Ten galleries of the museum's 13 were emptied and redecorated to contain the exhibition. Staff members erected a facsimile of a Japanese shrine on the lawn out front, found a Japanese orchestra to play on the night of the opening. Expecting the biggest crowds since the museum's opening 20 years ago, Director Richard Fuller explained: "We have had to go whole hog, but having...
...foremost collectors of glass paperweights, Mrs. Evangeline H. Bergstrom, 81, Neenah, Wis., author of Old Glass Paper weights (Crown, 1940: $7.50), gives some point ers on how to distinguish an ordinary weight from the real thing: 1) glass should not be too yellow, should not contain too many bubbles; 2) no scratches should show; 3) base should be smooth - only modern weights have rough, frost ed base...
Sometimes the God-fearing men of Nantucket were unable to get over the sight of the Pacific and its paradisial isles. The old records contain stories of men who left their ships and settled down with native women. Once, in 1824, a whole shipload of men mutinied, killed the officers of the Globe, and set up a short-lived kingdom on Mili Island...
...morning he climbed 1,600 feet to the top. The view filled him with awe. The rust-colored lode he saw was later described as "the richest concentration of iron ore on the face of the earth." Cerro Bolívar, as the mountain was named, is estimated to contain half a billion tons of top-grade (63.8% pure) iron...
...burns nearly 2 billion tons of coal and oil each year. Along with the smoke and soot of commerce, his furnaces belch some 6 billion tons of unseen carbon dioxide into the already tainted air. By conservative estimate, the earth's atmosphere, in the next 127 years, will contain 50% more...