Word: jigsaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unpacking and reassembling the stones on a 20-acre site just outside Miami. They worked from charts prepared by Hearst's dismantlers in Sacramenia; each stone bore a number corresponding to a position on the charts. The master mason who supervised the job called it "the greatest jigsaw puzzle in history...
...Three-Dimensional Jigsaw Puzzle, which teaches the child to think things out for himself and manipulate forms in three dimensions. A companion piece is the Three-Dimensional Color Puzzle which the child fits together by matching colors...
Singers First. Since the season is planned as far ahead as February, the present run still bears the Merola trademark. It was put together, according to one board member, "like a jigsaw puzzle." First the big-name singers were collected, then the repertory was fitted together to fill 22 evenings. Basso Rossi-Lemeni's commanding presence made it possible to schedule Mefistofele, Boris Godunov and Don Giovanni. Wagnerian Soprano Gertrude Grob-Prandl and Tenor Ludwig Suthaus were imported from Germany to do Tristan and Isolde and Die Walküre. At week's end, Italian Coloratura Contralto Giulietta...
...trouble fairly brims over when a man is born, as was Aubrey Menen, of an Irishwoman and a Hindu, is registered as a native Briton and educated like a true-born Englishman. Beset by so many distorting mirrors, such a man is bound to see the baffling jigsaw puzzle of his identity with either tears or laughter. Novelist Menen (The Prevalence of Witches, The Duke of Gallodoro) chooses laughter...
...oath. If an old lady gets sick, they will appear at her door week after week as volunteer shoppers and errand boys ("The staying power of boys on mercy bent sometimes surprises me"). If a child is ill, they will drop in to play checkers or to deliver homemade jigsaw puzzles...