Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expandable stages and semicircular projection screens. In the 1940s he painted ideally simple theater sets for No Exit and The Magic Flute, began experimenting with abstract sculpture constructed "to relax inside." More recently he completed a project for a "continuous house" (egg-shaped), featuring a prismatic mechanism which would flood the interior with different colors for each hour of the day. His latest brainchildren, which went on exhibition at Manhattan's Sidney Janis gallery last week, he calls "galaxies...
There is a tide in the affairs of men, says the Bard, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Many students, whose incomes have been on the ebb for the past few years, have found good tidings...
With Europe already struggling in choppy economic seas, the United States has suddenly added a flood of new problems. Foreign offices last week learned that the Senate Appropriations Committee will give no further loans to the European Coal and Steel Community. Aided since its inception by large U.S. grants, the supra-national agency set up to co-ordinate the heavy industries of several countries will now receive nothing. But curtailing the funds does not hurt Europealone; it also weakens United States plans for bolstering continental defense...
Heezen believes that they are the flood plains and deltas of "turbidity currents": rivers of mud, heavier than clear water, that coursed intermittently down the slopes of the continents and deposited their sediment far out on the bottom of the ocean. Most of the sediment, he thinks, was carried down in remote geological ages. The turbidity currents probably started near land. They cut deep gorges (e.g., the famous Hudson Canyon) in the continental slopes and dumped their silt and sand in deep basins in the irregular ocean bottom. When the nearest basin was full, the mud-river ran across...
...looms elbowed antiquated New England plants into obsolescence. In normal times these plants would have been forced to shut down. But World War II kept the demand climbing, and every plant hummed with war orders. At war's end the pent-up demand from abroad brought a new flood of orders, and the Korean war also gave it a short-lived boost. Thus, for more than a decade, the demand for textiles has been artificially high...