Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the Voice of Audubon. There is a small loon, a redhead duck and an American coot on Jamaica Pond. Brown-capped chickadees and "white-winged crossbills may be seen in the Arnold Arboretum . . What birds do you have to report...
...lack of spirit, "Out at Wellesley," she sighed nostalgically, "they have REAL teams. . . ." She smiled as she cited an example of true sportswomanship. It was a cold, rainy day out at Wellesley last winter, but there were 63 female rowers at their oars on the Wellesley pond. "You'd never find such a turnout at Radcliffe," she reflected sadly, "but then, Boston and its many cultural advantages aren't so close...
...imminence of his own death, was careless with his materials, bought pigments and oils in the nearby hardware store. One day in 1951, a rich Dutch butcher paused to admire his prized Ket, a self-portrait that was as exact and detailed as a reflection in a still pond. To the butcher's horror, the pond now seemed roiled; the paint, soft because of impure linseed oil, had started to slide down the subject's face (see cut). Frantic, the owner turned the portrait upside down, hoping that the paint would run back into its proper place...
...Premiers took a break to stroll around the pond in the autumn dusk. Then Mendès broached the question on which the week's success (and German sovereignty) depended. The French Assembly would not tolerate any economic isolation of the Saar from France, Mendès said bluntly, or agree to its political union with Germany. It must remain "European-ized," even if there was no longer any European community to which to attach it. Adenauer was reluctant to renounce all claim to the Saar as German territory. Mendès conceded that any agreement reached would...
...industrial growth. The milestone: dedication of a $60 million newsprint plant that will provide 750 jobs and an important outlet for one of Dixie's most abundant natural resources-southern pine. Outside the long, low buildings, some 450 visiting publishers and their wives inspected a giant man-made pond, as big as the Yale Bowl and capable of storing 30,000 cords of wood under water to guard against decay. Inside, they looked over two huge papermaking machines producing at the rate of 130,000 tons of newsprint a year...