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...merely appropriating a more sizable sum to its course catalogue, could perform the same needed service for every department in the College. But until that far-distant date when the University sees the greatness of the need, it would be nice to see the Social Relations Society's plan mushroom into a group of similar projects in other departments...
Bill Bingham said the Bowl's steel goalposts cost $1,800, were mushroom shaped underground to prevent uprooting, and were covered with grease to keep would-be climbers on the ground...
Composer Bloch was too ill to make the 3,000-mile trip from his cliff-hung home on the Oregon coast to the festival, but he was not too ill to compose. He spends his days combing the beach looking for agates, and mushroom-hunting in the salal and salmonberry woods nearby. In the huge living room of his house, near a life-size woodcarving of Christ, he works nervously, but neatly, as always, on a piano concerto. He and his wife Marguerite find time to play with his half-dozen cats. Says he: "We can learn much from them...
...fully the consequences of failure to attain effective international control, we shall continue our efforts." But the Commission, he said, "may soon be faced with the conclusion that it is unable to complete the task," and he left the implications of that statement floating over the audience like a mushroom-shaped cloud...
...book: they failed to put out their fire. From its embers sprang a blaze that soon fired the summer-dry brush nearby. Volunteers came running and quickly had the burning brush under control-or so they thought until a rising wind undid their work. Soon a white mushroom of smoke hung over Cape Breton's heartland...