Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Detroit. Aiming point: Cadillac Square. Wiped out: downtown Detroit, Hamtramck, River Rouge, Highland Park, Windsor. Major blast damage: Dearborn, Grosse Pointe, Royal Oak...
...Shapley and Economist Seymour Harris have also been recent guests. Two tutors recently formed a poetry group which plans to invite local poets to the House for informal meetings. There is a play-reading group, an art committee, which sponsors eight exhibits a year, and a house newspaper, the Oak Leaf, published occasionally...
...entries, located in Westmorely, are considerably older; they were constructed about 1897, but Victorian diamond-paned windows and oak wainscotting compensate for any disadvantages resulting from age. Randolph, comprising D through I entries, is about the same age, but features spacious rooms, and a courtyard overlooking Apthorp...
...oak-paneled office on St. Swithin's Lane this week, six representatives of London's leading bullion houses gathered and quietly exchanged bids for the purchase and sale of gold bullion. At the end of the session, they fixed an official price of $34.976 an oz. v. the $34.9125 paid by the U.S. Treasury. By their action, in the "gold-fixing room" of Bullion Dealers N. M. Rothschild & Sons, the six men* gave the world its first official free-gold market since the war ended the meetings in the fixing room. The dealers hoped and expected that...
...restless and insatiable quest for knowledge. If a sound man hastily "rolled a loop" of track as an airplane passed over (so that the intruding racket could later be dubbed into parts of the scene shot after it had disappeared),Webb asked why. He watched stage carpenters make golden oak out of cheap pine sets with yellow paint and combs. He patiently learned about studio lights (brutes, seniors, juniors and inky-dinks, in order of their size), and the tricks of lighting eyes and burning out mike shadows...