Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uranium. Around him were wells producing oil by the waterflood method, in which oil is recovered by pumping water into the ground, thus increasing the underground pressure and forcing oil up the well. On the surface, the oil and water are separated, and the water is passed through a sand filter before being recirculated through the well...
Stapp considered himself in excellent shape in other respects. He had two black eyes where blood vessels had ruptured; he had strap burns and bruises where bits of sand had blasted against him. His sinuses were blocked for three days; but in two days more he passed a physical examination and returned to duty...
...collect, assemble, and see as a whole. Fielding, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Stendhal, Turgenev, Hardy, Conrad, Bagehot, Matthew Arnold-such writers are not too voluminous; each one has kept up a steady standard, and endowed his works as a whole with a corporate character. Voltaire, Goethe, George Sand, Wells, Bennett, and Belloc, on the other hand, are no use for this purpose . . . They all wrote some rubbish. And to the scholars can be left the mountainous minutiae of Walpoleiana, or the Boswell Papers. Above all, do not let Montague's 'true intimacy' with even 'a dozen...
...gone ... a gabbing, ambitious, mock-tough, pretentious young man; and moley, too." Or he can roll all the world's seaside picnics into an impressionistic memory of one boyhood frolic: "August Bank Holiday-a tune on an ice-cream cornet. A slap of sea and a tickle of sand ... A wince and whinny of bathers dancing into deceptive water. A tuck of dresses. A rolling of trousers ... A sunburn of girls and a lark of boys. A silent hullabaloo of balloons." Appearing near the first anniversary of Dylan Thomas' death, this litany for fellow poets, lost youth...
...editors got jobs after their schooling as copy boys, office boys, reporters on their local newspapers or small magazines. One began as copyreader for the Panama American in Panama City, Panama. Another began his training on the Pierce County Press in Rugby, N.Dak. And another broke in on the Sand Mountain Banner in Albertville...