Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million hotel and department-store center on a vacant plot in Denver. He soon ran into trouble. The plans called for a 1,000-car underground garage, but when Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp engineers started taking core samples, they found a 65-ft. formation of blue clay, sand and rock that would have to be excavated at a cost of about $3.000,000. Bill Zeckendorf told his men to keep on sampling. Last week, instead of a banana, they found a bonanza. They had struck gold 40 ft. down. Said Zeckendorf: "We will be able to sluice more than...
...Secrets," a sensualist is unable to escape the reverie of past sights. Samuel Thompson has portrayed a lonely who hides among filmy dreams and natural beauty when faced with such realistic as the end of a love affair and a heart attack: "The snow was like clean white sand, warm smooth sand. Just like a South Sea island a warm small island with fine tan women. And it was so wonderfully, lazily warm. So warm on the island that some of the women didn't wear any clothes...
...some demand. "Sometimes a copy of TIME was acceptable and sometimes it was not. The one sure way to open the cornucopia of the back room was to produce an issue of LIFE.'' Explained the trader: "It costs one copper for anyone to stand there while the sand runs through the small hole in the bottom of my timekeeper gourd ... I am the only man in this village who can read words, but anyone can read pictures...
Author Ray Brock (Blood, Oil and Sand), who spent five years as war correspondent in Ankara and Istanbul, has written-or overwritten- the first fulldress biography of this tremendous figure since his death. But the book is too crammed with imagined detail to gratify either history or Hollywood. When Author Brock tries, in a sort of romantic, Irving Stone style, to read the great man's thoughts, the portrait of the remote and terrible Turk turns into semifiction. After an early setback, for instance, Ataturk is made to muse: "Yes, Pasha, and like that monstrous egg in the rhyme...
...example of how TIME, in a sense, both covers and stimulates the news in the field of art. That field, as Art Editor Alexander Eliot interprets it, covers more than just painting. We have had, for example, stories on such subjects as the rediscovery of Roman mosaics, Navajo sand painting and modern architecture. There have also been reports on playground sculpture, park design, African carvings and U.S. folk...