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Word: seeds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washday Rolls. The first problem is getting seed capital. American banks are usually not interested in helping, and foreign bankers tend to shun the little man in favor of big companies. Many beginners have to scrape deep to supply their own capital; others are forced to borrow on a short-term basis at interest rates that range from 18% to 25%. These charges, plus high import duties on American-made equipment, make many foreign ventures much more expensive to set up than similar ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entrepreneurs: Exporting the Dream | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

Died. William Muir, 61, North Dakota-born sculptor (TIME, March 13) whose works, inspired by seaweed and seed pod and carved in kingwood, walnut, mahogany and cocobolo, had combined the artless beauty of driftwood with the dynamic tension characteristic of Arp and Moore; following heart surgery; in Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 20, 1964 | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

...head was sheared from his body with an incision resembling the circular neckline of a flannel undershirt; others preferred the cor bat a -one slice across the throat, through which the victim's tongue was pulled, to look like a necktie. With the grim slogan of "Leave no seed," children were murdered, men emasculated, pregnant women cut open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: Stamping Out la Violencia | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

Muir, 61, is a carver who penetrates a forest of woods: hard black walnut, violet kingwood, satiny lignum vitae, reddish cocobolo, Pernambuco wood, mahogany, apple, redwood and familiar trees. Occasionally he also works with granite. Yet it is dried seed pods, withered blossoms, moss and lichens that give Muir his forms. "I am a scavenger and gatherer of all sorts of flora not thought much of by most people," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Driftwood by Design | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

Although B.C. (15-7-1) might have had a slightly rougher schedule than Harvard, the Crimson soundly beat the Eagles 4-2 at McHugh Forum in their one meeting this season. The fact that the chairman of the seeding committee is B.C.'s athletic director, while no one on the board represents Harvard, just may have something to do with the Eagles third seed...

Author: By Joel Havemann, | Title: Sextet Is Seeded Fifth in ECAC | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

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