Word: restfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reservoirs, laid 5,200 miles of mains and pipes to feed the city's hidden lacework of metal capillaries. But World War II, which halted work on a new aqueduct, boosted the city's ever-rising population alarmingly. Last summer's grass-crisping drought did the rest...
...pudgy figure, his middle-aged stoop, his brownish hair and open countenance. Back in 1935, as a result, he had little difficulty in selling acres & acres of steep, arid, brush-covered land in the barren hills above Los Angeles County's Placerita Canyon. The tract looked like a rest home for Gila monsters, but he got $1,950 an acre for it-just $1,900 more than he had paid...
...rest of the College--the Natural Science and Humanities--operates with much small courses, and therefore much more personal attention. But which came first, the chickens the egg? Are Social Sciences courses inherently more adaptable to large lecture halls of other courses? Or is it merely that the great popularity of Social Sciences and the operatively small variety of courses of automatically make Social Sciences course large...
...Bill Owen was a magnificent Touchstone and Ernest Thesiger was equally good as Jaques, the banished duke's attendant. Thesiger delivered the "All the world's a stage" lines with a forcefulness that, for a moment, eclipsed even Hepburn. William Prince as Orlando seemed somewhat less polished than the rest of the cast. The opening dialogue of the play, between him and Adam, the old servant, was too emotional for a beginning, but even Prince improved as the play progressed...
Thoughtful dining halls like Adams have been doing this for a year. Why not all the 'rest...