Word: sands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordinary way of making bricks is to press a mixture of clay, sand and water into forms. Usual size is close to 21¼ x 4 x 8¼ in. Such blocks are dried in the air or in a warm draft. Then they are stacked in a hemispherical kiln usually 30 feet in diameter by 12 feet in height. A yard full of kilns looks quite like a group of dirty red igloos. Their orifices are plugged up and a fire lit under a stout grating upon which the raw bricks are piled. In six to ten days they...
...drawing, beyond the emotions to a spiritual emphasis, soi the maturity of her senses has brought her to dwell upon qualities of air, shadow and faint fragrance in her objective scenes. When she paints a mesa, she remembers the cloud mesa above it. Two bronzed runners passing over some sand dunes remind her of "the shadows that eagles cast in their strong, unhurried flight...
Down the beach sands at Brunswick, Ga., the plane started. It roared, rushed along, stopped. It was wheeled back and tried again. This time it cleared the sand, mounted easily and soon was a narrowing speck to the southward...
...face, lighted by a bulbous nose, his brain was a melting pot for furious fancies. It fumed with a thousand energetic inspirations which varied from running a printing press to writing the Comedie Humaine. Everything he did was characterized by a gigantic and exaggerated gusto. At dinner with George Sand "three bottles had been emptied. He pointed to them: 'We are not drinking!' After they had consumed six dozen oysters, he pointed to the shells: 'What's wrong with you all tonight? Does nobody feel hungry...
...publication of crime news. . . ." Mr. Hearst was recently elected honorary president of the American Crime Study Commission, an organization of which Bradford Merrill, general manager of the Hearst newspapers, is secretary. Addressing the Commission, Mr. Hearst said that the U. S. penal system is "built upon the sand, founded upon the basis of force and violence instead of on the basis of Christian care of our fellow...