Word: poplar
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...solution was planning, a specialty of the Pei office. Henry Cobb, partner in charge, started by creating a visual frame. He designed a poplar-lined road that traces an almost complete circle from a cluster of old buildings to the outermost playing fields and back again. Then he intercepted the circle with five new academic buildings (a student center, lecture hall, library, administration building and arts center) set along an angular pedestrian "spine." These new buildings gave personality and vigor to the college and landscape, thus resolving Fredonia's great problem of formless anonymity. Moreover, they never turn their...
...often two hundred feet all, with ten-inch-long needles. They are the oldest trees with the longest roots. In a sense, they hold the forest together. After a forest fire, grass begins to grow, which is soon replaced by bushes, like mountain mahogany and thimbleberry. Fast growing poplar trees shade out the bushes, like quaking aspens. After about a hundred years, the coniferous forest again dominates the area. Ponderosas are the ones that hold the soil to the land...
...anonymous authors, with Teutonic thoroughness, tell more about devices and I processes than most people want to know. To explain the way a safety match works, for example, they begin with a log not yet stripped of its bark. Then they relentlessly pursue the wood -carefully identified as poplar-through the entire manufacturing process. Reluctantly they abandon the description when the match has finally been ignited, the flame extinguished and the reader's interest has burned...
...Figaro & Fruit Juice. As a government-owned counterpart of huge, foreign-flying Air France, Air Inter began operating in 1960 as France's first and only domestic airline. "Why bother?" asked many Frenchmen, accustomed to zipping along France's long, poplar-lined roads at Citroen speed-80 m.p.h. and upward. Air Inter soon proved why. Cramming passengers into mini-bucket seats, and serving only Le Figaro and fruit juice in flight, the line carried 16,000 passengers in its first year, passed 500,000 in 1964, reached 1,170,000 last year. It started with a handful...
Also on view are two versions of the Civil Rights Bill that Congress passed and President Grant signed into law in 1875. And there is material concerning Dr. John V. DeGrasse, an 1849 graduate of Bowdoin Medical School who set up an office at 17 Poplar Street on Beacon Hill, was in 1854 the first Negro to be admitted to the Massachusetts Medical Society, and later served as an assistant surgeon in the Union army...