Word: poplar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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KEITH J. RUDERT Poplar Bluff...
...immense green stretches of vista, the tall poplar rows iridescent against the sky, the sensual green of the sunbathed leaves--and, then, the sudden blue swathe of the indescribable Loire, broad and slow and stately--moving with easy grandeur through the ancient terrain" seem hard to read. His lovers often speak in terms of "Whooooosh," "Buffle, Buffle," and "Squuunch," which are things you would have overheard through thin bedroom walls in the hotels of New York, Paris and Barcelona, had you followed their jet-paced trek...
...Agna Boass of Greycroft House and Sherburn, Biology; Mary E. Costanza of Coggeshall House and Quincy, Philosophy; Rebecca Hoge of Everest House and Wayland, English; Ellen B. Kritzman of McIntire House and Glenhead, N.Y., Biology; Mrs. Dorothy M. Mermin of Cambridge, English; Lynn V. Moorhead of Cabot Hall and Poplar Grove, III., Biochemical Sciences, and Janice D. Rowe of Greycroft House and Woburn, Far Eastern Languages...
...German embassy in Athens. Under the reproachful eyes of the black-draped widows, he asked about what might be done as a measure of atonement: some looms, perhaps, to establish a small tapestry-weaving business, with equipment, dyes and technical assistance to come from Germany; 10,000 poplar trees to provide wood for the crates Greece needs to ship its fruit crops, livestock to increase the village's pitiful herd of 100 cows to 1,000 or more; a training program which would send 30 Kalavryta youths to Bavaria each year to learn good farming methods...
Critic Lewis Mumford's observation that we are living in a "paper civilization" is no news to TIME's production people. An average issue of TIME uses 485 tons of paper, made from Canadian spruce, western hemlock and Lake States poplar. But TIME's paper suppliers are all engaged in replenishing as well as using their valuable natural resources. All the companies from which TIME buys paper-Mead Corp., Consolidated Water Power and Paper Co., Crown Zellerbach Corp. and St. Regis Paper Co.-are actively engaged in conservation and reforestation programs, planting millions of seedlings each year...