Word: marly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suburb of Linda Mar nestles in the Pedro Valley, 15 miles south of San Francisco, hard by the Pacific shore. So far, only 900 of the development's planned 3,500 homes ($9,500-$! 1,500) have been built and occupied, but bulldozers are hard at work gouging out lots on the hillsides, and scores of concrete foundations dot the valley floor. Despite its unfinished state, the whole community was hustling and bustling one foggy morning last week. Like millions of other youngsters across the nation, the 350 children of Linda Mar were trudging off to the first...
Joint Enterprise. Linda Mar's is no ordinary public school. Five weeks ago, it was no more than another valley lot. Now the Oddstad School stood ready for its pupils: an odd combination of eleven standard one-story houses linked by a breezeway, with interiors converted into light, airy classrooms, the kitchen in one serving as a teachers' lunchroom. Last week there was work yet to be done; carpenters were still nailing on roof shingles; there was no electricity; the kindergarten's blocks had not arrived. But months ahead of schedule, Linda Mar's children...
...again defied the Communists; Archbishop Michael 62, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America, whose flock numbers some 6,500,000 communicants; Theologian John Baillie, 68, onetime Moderator of the Church of Scotland, a Highlander who is an authority on moral philosophy; Metropolitan Juhanon Mar Thoma of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, India, one of the oldest churches in Christendom. There were other delegates, some hitherto obscure, who made their mark at Evanston. Among the outstanding leaders...
...faith to talk about such matters in public. Crevolin's careless attempt to explain away a few defeats only strengthened the smart-money boys' suspicions that now and then the fix might be on, that every entry in a race is not always "well meant." At Del Mar, where Crevolin's horses are now running, stewards called Crevolin on the carpet, sent a report to the California Horse Racing Board. In Chicago the Illinois Racing Board promptly started an investigation of its own. Already chastened, Andy Crevolin talked faster than ever in an effort to beat...
...Victorian Chaise Longue, by Mar ghanita Laski. A slight but chilling tale about a girl who strayed from the 20th century into the 19th (TIME, June...