Word: craning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Councillors Edward Crane '35, Thomas Danehy, Robert Montcreiff, Thomas Coates, and Daniel Clinton all left the meeting while it was in progress, leaving the Council without a quorum...
Councillor Edward A. Crane urged the Council to vote "cautiously" on the issue and said, "There is danger that we might create a mecca for drug addicts in this city...
...time Councillor Crane got up to give the main speech of the evening most of us had been eliminated on earlier rounds. I must confess to missing Crane's explanation of his tin can lid necklace but I felt I had an excuse. The 125th centennial dinner was my only chance to relive the myth of former CRIMSON city editors who used to write their council stories drunk after a night at Igo's. Next week it would be back to the issues...
...they were made for domestic use, the imagery of byōbu is generally secular. But Western categories of what is or is not secular make less sense in the context of Japanese art, in which aesthetics is raised to the status of ethics, and any image, from a crane stepping into water to the gesture of a dancing girl, can disclose a web of references to safari, or illumination...
...loading and unloading in ports. Most cargo ships spend half their time in port, including considerable waiting for dock space. The new ship can stay offshore, outside the port, while tugs deliver barges to it or pick up barges from it. The Lash Italia has a 500-ton capacity crane that hoists the vessel's 63 lighters (each 61 ft. long) over the stern and stows them in the open holds. Bypassing the crowded docks, the ship stopped at Barcelona for only eight hours instead of the usual 24, at Genoa for nine hours instead of two days...