Word: loom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building must have been full of combustible material; the fire inside got so hot that it baked the clay walls into reddish brick. A line of 72 loom weights in one corner made Dr. Pritchard suspect that the structure was a primitive textile factory full of inflammable weaving materials. When his diggers removed the dirt near by, they found the regular streets of a carefully planned city with a community bakery. The dwellings had mud-brick walls and central columns to support the wooden roof beams. Mixed in the debris were many homely objects of ancient daily life-bowls, flasks...
...center that thunders with Wagner and bubbles with Bach. It is an art center with a proud history of avant-garde innovation. It is a sports center, boasting 75 lakes and forests within 30 miles of the city, and on a clear day the ski slopes of the Alps loom pale blue just 30 miles to the south, over the twin onion domes of the Frauenkirche...
Pyramids in the Flatness. As with the rural regions of Texas, each major Texas city has a character of its own, alike only in that the skyline of each seems to loom as an irregular pyramid in a desert of flatness. Houston is a lightly governed city that has outstripped all of its rivals partly because of its strategic location, partly because its people are free, unselfconscious, build for the pure pleasure of doing big things. Dallas, honestly but rigidly ruled by a business oligarchy, has been fretting about its image since long before Nov. 22. It quarrels with nearby...
Occasionally Levron seems to suffer from biographer's lens, a distorting disability that makes the writer's subject loom through history at elephant size while other personages appear as ants. Describing the Seven Years' War, in which Austria and France were eventu ally drubbed by England and Prussia, Levron somehow creates the impression that Mme. de Pompadour was fighting the war singlehanded-writing almost daily letters to generals on all fronts, conniving with the Viennese court, desperately trying to put a little pluck into her King and his flagging ministers, many of whom, Levron admits...
...meek do the Terriers appear again this year, that coach Bill McCurdy sent his Harvard runners through a full-scale workout yesterday instead of giving them the usual day off before a meet. Of course, the fact that Ivy League co-favorites Cornell and Brown loom on the near horizon for the Crimson also had much to do with McCurdy's unorthodox action...