Word: contour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back that holds you up for the leisurely joy of reading or eating breakfast in bed. And the high footboard that fences the covers in. As for the overstuffed chairs: I'll vote for them over the scratchy straw, sagging canvas and thin veneer of today's contour sitting devices. I'd like to know whose odd contours shaped them...
...most precious document on his farm, which he never lets out of his keeping. It includes his soil-test figures (he can get free tests done either by the Tennessee state laboratories or by a fertilizer company that offers the service), a chart of his program for terracing and contouring and planting, and an aerial photo-mosaic with contour and field lines superimposed. So far, Joe has put in 4,000 ft. of terraces and drainage ditches, converted about 90 acres from thicket to permanent pasture...
Breaking the Complex. Almost as a matter of course, Joe joined the F.F.A. when he entered high school in Gainesboro. Under his vocational agriculture teacher, Robert ("Woofie") Fox, Joe began studying the schoolbook side of modern farming: crop rotation, contour plowing, terracing, grass and grain mixtures for good cover crops, soil testing, plant foods, livestock bacteria, basic veterinary practice. In shop class, Joe learned how to build hog feeders and cattle chutes, how to wire a barn for electricity, how to hang gates, how to solder and weld, and how to care for his machines. (Lesson I: "Grease is cheaper...
...Milton Lightner and Investment Banker David Von Alstyne Jr.) for the Air Force job when Quarles was appointed. Last year by way of vacation, he took only a long weekend on Fire Island, where he worked building a flight of steps. He has never once reposed in his office contour lounge chair. Quarles directed all military research projects, from the details of new uniforms to nuclear-powered ships and planes, and the planned new earth satellite. To keep historical perspective, he keeps at the entrance to his office a wooden club labeled: FIRST GUIDED MISSILE...
...life. "I wonder," he wrote recently, "whether art has a higher function than to make us feel, appreciate and enjoy natural objects for their art value? So, as I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge or a vigor of spring as well as an infinite variety of color that no artifact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival . . . Each day. as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday." Then, in a different mood, he confesses...