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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time in the woods or on the cliffs of Washington's Puget Sound. Lately he and a young Nisei friend named Yonemitsu Arashiro have been living in a forest lean-to and doing what they call "rock painting," which is not painting at all. Graves and Yonemitsu load heavy rocks on their truck, haul them to their backyard, then spend days wrestling the huge boulders into arrangements that please them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Obscure Meadows | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...They can search the whole Mediterranean Sea for a small boat-load of illegal immigrants, but they say they cannot patrol the few miles of the Palestine border...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Split Holy Land,' Says UN Delegate | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Eliot's quintet scrambled to a 31 to 27 victory over Winthrop yesterday afternoon to leave the Puritans only one more chance to tie for the league, load. Elephant center Bob Crichton tallied ten points as the game's high-scorer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot 31, Winthrop 27 | 3/11/1948 | See Source »

...carry another 76 passengers. Though the Constitution was built expressly for the Navy (which has another one on order), Lockheed has high hopes for it as a commercial plane. At nearly the same cruising speed (300 m.p.h.) as the Constellation's it will carry a full load across the Atlantic without refueling. Lockheed thinks the Constitution can carry passengers cheaply enough to undersell luxury liners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...work the claim, which had reverted to Simon. She tended the llama-dung fire, melted the snow for drinking water, and prodded Simon on when he tired of hacking away at the mountainside. When he finally struck the rich lode that became the fabulous La Salvadora mine, she helped load the sacks with ore, bring it down on llama-back, and grind it on a millstone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dowager Empress | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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