Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night of Dec. 11, 1710, England's Nottingham galley was smashed to bits on rocky Boon Island, just six miles off the coast of Maine. What the crew of 14 sees the next morning is enough to test the fiber of any man: a ledge on which nothing grows, a slab of rock pounded by huge seas. The ship has vanished in the night, the men have nothing but the clothes they wear. There is no food, no firewood, no water. Novelist Roberts has a perfect chance to sort out the men from the weaklings. Some of them...
...world community.' Our relation to the world cornmunity may easily become that of a subject nation if we can do no better than we did in the White House Conference to achieve schooling adapted to a world situation which calls for our utmost in trained intelligence and moral fiber...
Gone With the Otter. Because the Northwest Indians worked in perishable wood, horn and fiber, few of their surviving carved objects are more than 150 years old. But ironically, this probably is no great loss. Initial contact with the white man, which spelled cultural disaster elsewhere, had a tonic effect on the avid, acquisitive fisheaters of the Northwest. The steel tools they got in trading started a great, final flowering of the traditions of wood sculpture that had been slowly evolving for centuries. Its most spectacular achievement: the giant totem pole that emerged within a century from the small carved...
...especially appealing to Boggs's eye was a two-stanza poem, dashed off by Virginia last week in Washington, where her husband was attending the governors' conference (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) with President Eisenhower. Title: The President Smiled at Me. Excerpts: "The President smiled at me/ And every fiber of emotion swelled within my soul . . ./ So deep was my humility . . ./ When the President smiled...
...Glass-Fiber Pool. An oval glass-fiber swimming pool 3 to 5 ft. deep, 30 ft. long and 15 ft. wide has been put on the market by Los Angeles' Paddock Pool Equipment Co. The pool is rust-and corrosion-proof, more resilient than conventional steel or masonry types, costs about 50% less. Installed price, including excavation and components (filter plant, color trim, concrete coping and walk): between $2,200 and $2,600, depending on the area and ease of installation...