Word: mill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mullen of the Mill School in Whittier, Calif., was the best second-grade teacher I saw in almost three years of visiting classrooms. I am distressed to find her portrayed in your article about my book as the prime example of the teacher who underestimates the children in her class...
...often, you depict every run-of-the-mill, nondescript, Caspar Milquetoast, blend-into-the-woodwork type gangster as looking like a bank clerk. And now Eichmann! Come, come, TIME. Where are you doing your banking? Surely not out here in the West, where I am married to a banker who looks like a gangster...
...talk of an expanding network of dams, power stations, storage lakes and irrigation canals that will stir to life huge, drowsing areas of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Industry is moving into the area. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. is building the world's largest mine-and-mill potash project at Cane Creek, Utah; San Francisco Chemical Co. will dig and process phosphates near Vernal, Utah...
Square Spiral. In the Indian cotton center of Ahmedabad he built two graceful villas, an office building for the Mill-owners Association, and finally the "endless museum" he had thought of 30 years before. Its plan, which was to be repeated in Tokyo, was a sort of square spiral or maze that could be expanded at will. Today he is still working on his biggest commission of all: Chandigarh, the capital of the Punjab. The Indian government hired Corbu for 4,000 rupees ($840; a month to build a whole new city to replace the old Lahore, which had been...
...emulation of the two Cold War antagonists. This tendency should not be confused with the passing infatuation which the ex-colonial states have been showing for the trappings of nation-hood. The familiar insistence of every infant state that it be provided with an army, an airline, a steel mill, and a vote in the UN indicates emulation of established states in general rather than the U.S. and U.S.S.R. in particular. Emulation of the Cold War Powers is less demonstrable, but perhaps more influential...