Word: firs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prototype for a development, Architect Thomas C. Lehrecke designed a house for his own family at Tappan, N.Y., concentrating on combining flexibility with low cost ($28,000). The exterior is of redwood, Douglas fir and concrete block, accented with horizontal white panels...
...book form, contains detailed interviews with 14 major writers, six of them poets. Armed with tape recorders and probing questions the interviewers ranged the U.S. and Europe, talking to Lawrence Durrell in a French cottage, T. S. Eliot in a Manhattan apartment, and the late Boris Pasternak amid the fir trees of Peredelkino...
From the outside, the small whitewashed house, surrounded by tiny birch and fir trees, looks as if it might belong to a mousy little spinster who would never do anything that would cause talk among the neighbors. But the house on the outskirts of Brussels belongs to Paul Delvaux, a grey-maned, sad-faced man of 65 who, next to René Magritte, is Belgium's top surrealist and can sometimes be seen standing in his studio wearing blue jeans and sandals, slowly filling a huge canvas with vacant-eyed female nudes. Against one wall stands...
...early days, lumber mills customarily burned off waste or dumped it in nearby rivers, polluting them. Weyerhaeuser, spurred by the New Deal's emphasis on conservation, looked for ways to use waste. Over the years, it found a process to bleach fir pulp white to make it suitable for better-grade papermaking, developed paperboard that will take color printing and a polyethylene coating to replace wax on milk cartons. Aside from its supertrees, Weyerhaeuser's most intensive research is aimed at finding more uses for bark, which represents 15% of each tree. It has developed a hydraulic debarker...
...German ideal fused with the land grant movement, which brought in schools of agriculture, engineering, and home economics, and widened "the gates of opportunity." Kerr noted that before World War I Wisconsin and other schools expanded the greater concern fir public affairs, and wider service to the public at large...