Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land...
...shrunken modern world still has pockets of mystery. One of the most mysterious is the Dash-ti-Margo (Desert of Death) in southwestern Afghanistan, where the summer heat rises to 125° F., and the sand-laden wind reaches 90 m.p.h. Last week Anthropologist Walter A. Fairservis of New York City's American Museum of Natural History told how in the midst of Dash-ti-Margo he and two associates had come upon a dead city forgotten by the modern world...
Today MGM's camera unit travels to Barnstable on Cape Cod for ocean and sand dune scenes. As soon as they are completed, MGM will return to Boston briefly for several railroad station shots...
Alabaster & Antipathy. Never married, he was always in love. When he first met the tiny, cigar-smoking and betrousered George Sand sulking at a soiree, he exclaimed, "What an antipathetic person ... Is it really a woman? I am inclined to doubt it." He claimed she was his mistress for less than a year, but he lived with her and depended on her care and solicitude for almost the rest of his life. When her children finally forced them apart, he was lost without...
...depletion." Moreover, they could sell the well later and pay only a long-term capital gains (25%) tax on the profit. If the well was dry, they could write off the whole cost as a loss, thus cut down taxable income. Though many a hopeful had hit nothing but sand and salt, from Texas to Utah last week a handful of luckier stars had struck it rich...