Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Truman was well aware of the conspiracy to get him to take a rest, and told reporters so. They could keep up the propaganda, he quipped, and it might work. He had decided definitely that it could not be Key West; pictures of the President lolling on warm sand, he thought, would not look well beside pictures of G.I.s slogging through mud and snow in Korea. But along about the first of next month, Harry Truman might leave Washington and head West. Instead of blue water and palm trees he would look at guns, planes and tanks. He would...
...Denver Art Museum staged a show last week that had more to do with anthropology than with esthetics. Entitled "Myths and Magic," it was a hodgepodge of everything from ancient Egyptian good-luck pieces and African fetishes to Solomon Island tabu sticks, Javanese puppets and Navajo sand paintings. Such things were not made merely to look at. Most of them had great visual impact, but their power was at least doubled by an understanding of the superstitions and purposes back of them...
...artillerymen train at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, for six weeks before their senior year. There they work out in the field tactical problems which they have done on paper and sand-table models through the winter. Live ammunition is brought up for the 105 m.m. howitzers which are used in dry runs at College. The soldiers live at camp with other members of the "Ivy League Battery...
Crimson basketball coach Norm Shepard said last night, "It's time all colleges got their athletic set-ups on a sensible basis College administrations have been sticking their heads in the sand for the last 50 years, and now they're beginning to pay for it. I know Nat has been worried about the gambling influence in New York for a long time. When he was up here this year with his team he spoke to me about it, although he had no idea his own team was involved...
...into trim for this week's fight with Cuban Heavyweight Omelio Agromonte, Joe Louis decided to sweat out his training schedule on a Miami beach. Along with him came two faithful fans: Joe Jr., 3, and daughter Jacqueline, 8, to play in the sand and watch papa make muscles...