Word: float
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speed is arrested by the friction of the air, a small parachute will come out; finally a large chute will deploy and float the man in his capsule. Slowly, he will descend at about 30 ft. per second until he is let down, almost gently, in the Gulf of Mexico. There he will be rescued by a waiting ship of the U.S. Navy and brought back-a hero...
...always been hard for a small, growing company to float a stock issue. Wall Street's big underwriters generally ignore it; the fees are hardly worth the effort. But last week a fledgling microwave-equipment company called F X R, Inc. made news with its new issue. It had taken its modest (200,000 shares) offering to an underwriting specialist as small as itself: C. E. Unterberg, Towbin Co., a two-man firm that operates a one-room office and has won itself a red-hot reputation introducing and making markets for midgets. So successful is the firm that...
...TIME, Oct. 14, 1957), scrag-bearded Bernard Maybeck cheerfully held court in the house he built for himself of gunny sacks dipped in pink cement in the Berkeley hills, delighted his visitors by ripping off hunks of the wall to prove that they were light enough to float. Barely 5 ft. tall in his home-knitted tam-o'-shanter, Maybeck was a sartorial seventh wonder. He blueprinted the clothes for his wife Annie (whom he courted by emblazoning her initial A all over the floral motifs of the Crocker Building), designed his own smock and high-rise pants...
...broad overhanging eaves, reminiscent of a Japanese temple, project over glass screen walls decorated with exuberant Gothic motifs. It might have proved a nightmare of clashing styles. But Maybeck took his cue from his materials and kept his eye on the site. As a result, the church appears to float from the surrounding hedges, ornamented by its own shadows and highlights and finished for all time...
...possibilities are infinite: each coffee house could contribute its own favorite guitarist and folk singers to wander and strum on different days. Russian Volga songs, French chansons; perhaps even American folk songs (though this is recommended hesitantly) would float between the tables...