Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Satisfied that the final score is the only statistic that counts, Big Jim Tatum groaned with relief: "I'm so plumb tuckered out I feel like I played myself. I don't mind sayin', I guessed my guts...
...industry was caught last week in a pinch that had the oilmen howling for relief. Instead of the usual 4%-5% annual increase in domestic oil demand, consumption has edged up only 1%, pushing surplus stocks of petroleum products to 723.9 million bbl. by the end of September, nearly 43 million bbl. more than during the same period last year. Oilmen everywhere cut back exploration for new wells, and prices slumped sharply. With more oil than it can sell, Ohio Oil Co. shaved its bids for new supplies of Wyoming heavy crude by 8? per bbl. and Indiana Standard...
This year the ruggers should set their old vanity back. Led by a miscellaneous group of foreign students and several names that might bring relief to the heart of John Yovicsin, the club is in excellent shape for its opening first and second fifteen games against M.I.T. this Saturday...
Made of reinforced concrete, in 132 numbered panels weighing 110 tons, the bas-relief lay face down last week in back of Nivola's summer home at East Hampton, N.Y. Seven huge platform trucks will soon transport it to Hartford, Conn., where it will be fitted to the steel frame of Mutual Insurance Co. of Hartford's new office building. In place, the bas-relief will serve as a 110-ft.-long wall over the building's main entrance. It is an abstraction with overtones of cubism -an endless procession of angular, cloudy, faceless figures that seem...
...amusing his children building sand castles on the beach at East Hampton, he conceived the idea of sculpting in damp sand and casting directly in concrete. A certain amount of sand sticks to Nivola's concrete casts, providing color and texture plus an odd feeling that the bas-relief, once erected, may slide away like sand at any moment...