Word: likes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anne's day. Girls cured warts by rubbing them with lard and then burying the lard (a method described by Francis Bacon). They performed a levitation stunt that once fascinated Samuel Pepys. They still believe that reciting the Lord's Prayer backwards makes the Devil appear, and like the Elizabethans, seldom dare...
...tasted like jelly...
...form of a peculiarly dense graphite. At first this stuff was only a laboratory curiosity, and for a long time no one made it in quantity or thoroughly tested its properties. But after considerable experimentation, Raytheon's furnaces yielded a hard, impermeable, layered material that looks like black porcelain. Called Pyrographite, it proved to be five times as strong as ordinary graphite, keeps its strength at temperatures up to 6,700° F., also has the extraordinary property of conducting heat 100 times better along its main surfaces than perpendicular to them...
...much harder to be a good painter than president of General Motors.'' Slowly, out of the gloom in Florsheim's studio, more positive and colorful pictures began emerging. "I don't think most artists go through a blinding transformation; it's like a shingled roof with no start and no finish," he explains. "But I've gone farther in the past few years when it comes to communicating what is going on around us. The artist is an interpreter after all; he's building the culture just as other people build buildings...
...rooms to be as individual as possible, decided that the rooms should be "as random as those in an old inn rather than as standardized as those in a modern motel." In addition, Saarinen was determined to discover an architecture that would keep the two new colleges from looking like stripped-down cousins of the older structures built in the days of low construction costs...