Word: marvels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three-manual Holtkamp organ has just recently been installed. It is designed along Classical rather than Romantic lines, with all the pipes unenclosed. The instrument speaks with great clarity, although some of the ranks of reed pipes are harsh and unevenly voiced. The Auditorium itself is truly an acoustical marvel...
...droppings (100,000 tons still lie in New Mexico's Carlsbad), cool storage for beer and cheese, ready-made railroad tunnels (for the Southern Railway in Virginia), chicken pens with below hen-killing summer temperatures, cesspools for at least five Pennsylvania towns, factories for moonshiners and counterfeiters, prisons (Marvel Cave, Mo.), natural air conditioning for surface buildings. Kentucky's Mammoth even served as a TB sanatorium for a time in the 1840s (one patient died; the others got sicker...
...cannot help but marvel at, and admire, the completeness of the up-hill-and-down-vale denunciation of Stalin by Khrushchev. It is easy to see how this regurgitation of Stalin, coupled with the current more reasonable sounding party line, will cause unthinking souls to warm to this new face so expertly put on by men who would have us forget that Communism is evil, whether armed or unarmed, frowning or smiling...
...mystery and marvel of the 2,000-year-old scrolls found nine years ago in caves near the ruins of a religious community on the Dead Sea, two scrolls shone with a special aura. For these, instead of leather or parchment, were of copper-a precious metal in those ancient times, betokening a message of highest value. Oxidized by time, the copper scrolls stubbornly withheld their secret while scientists puttered and pondered over the problem of unrolling them without crumbling them to powder...
...CRIMSON reported, "with Rudy Vallee and his 38-piece ensemble striking the key note in a triumphal rendering of the 'Stein Song', the annual Freshman Smoker took place..." Among the other featured performers on the programs, it seems, were "Ann Graham, platinum girl," "Al Bernie, 14-year-old boy marvel," and an officer of that year's freshman class by the name of F. Skiddy von Stade...