Word: sand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assuredly reporting these statistics, the Times-like all other journalistic enterprises-is carrying on a tradition founded by Archimedes. He set himself the task of computing the number of grains of sand that could be encompassed within the area of the known universe. After a great deal of figuring, accompanied by many diagrams, he produced an answer that satisfied him. (It mattered not that his data on the universe were wrong...
...summertime entertainment, the popular novel retains certain distinct advantages over even the most portable television set. The book is easy to operate and almost never needs repair. It functions at all altitudes and particularly well at sea level, where sand, salt air and suntan lotions have no adverse effects on its performance. These two suitable-for-summer novels are brisk, undemanding and unoffensive, except possibly to cautious Washington bureaucrats, Chinese Communists, members of the Italian-American Civil Rights League or Hungarians overly sensitive to the revolving-door joke (they go in behind you, but come out in front...
...keep his legs in shape," recalls Don Whittington, then a co-owner of Horizon City. "Even in those days, he had very definite ambitions to become a great golfer." Trevino played the gusty desert course with Spartan regularity. When winds of up to 60 m.p.h. kicked up the sand, he donned scuba-diver goggles and kept swinging. Impressed by his determination, Whittington and his partner paid Trevino's plane fare to the 1966 U.S. Open in San Francisco. Playing with an unmatched bag of clubs ("I must have had seven different brands"), he finished 54th and was so discouraged that...
...Because of the publicity campaigns mounted by organizations to save Venice from decaying into an empty, waterlogged Renaissance Disneyland, it may yet stand some chance of at least partial preservation as a city. But the Parthenon, under the influence of time, weather, vibration and industrial fumes, is turning to sand; and all over Italy, Spain and France there is a slow and apparently irreversible destruction of art by pollution, economic progress, neglect and age. This immense but rapidly shrinking deposit of artifacts and images constitutes the ground from which the isolated masterpiece on a museum wall draws its rationale...
...ready-mixed oil paints in tubes made it possible for Boudin, and Monet after him, to carry through an entire painting in this way. Boudin's influence on his incomparably more gifted disciple was strong, and it can be seen as late as 1870 in the pearly sky, sand and sea of Camille Monet and Her Cousin on the Beach at Trouville. But the broad slap of Monet's brush and the vigorous striping of the girls' dresses have already gone beyond what Boudin had to teach...