Word: sheeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cities and sleepy provinces, where the Tour is remembered all year, schools and businesses close to cheer it through. A brassy blend of road show and county fair, the juggernaut blocks traffic for two hours as it passes. Founded by a promotion-minded sporting sheet with the inappropriate name of L'Auto, the Tour is financed by advertisers, who pay up to $4,000 for the privilege of following the racers with sound trucks that blare praise for products from apéritifs to aspirin. (The Tour's current sponsors are two French papers...
...comes from faulty equipment. To prove it, he ran a check on the 33 stethoscopes used by his Charleston colleagues at Medical College Hospital, found his suspicions confirmed. Two-thirds of the stethoscopes were defective. The doctors using them would be almost as well off with a rolled-up sheet of paper-which is just what the stethoscope was when first conceived by French Physician René Laënnec in 1816. Among the most common failings that Dr. Groom found...
Last week, adding up the balance sheet of the enterprise at the close of the graduation season, Fradkin reported that 400 scholarships had been granted by local communities out of a total collection of between $100,000 and $125,000. Sighed starry-eyed Optometrist Fradkin: "If we can do what we have done with no money, what could we do with money...
...Chinese Premier Chou En-lai himself came to Ulan Bator and signed a treaty providing for $50 million in long-term loans to build a cotton mill, a sheet-glass factory, a 10,000-ton steel mill, an irrigation system, a circus, and a project for 240,000 square meters of apartment housing for Ulan Bator...
...engineer's blueprint. He wakes at 5, meditates for a while, and then, in measured steps, proceeds to his white studio, designed by U.S. Architect (and fellow Catalonian) José Luis Sert. There, surrounded by favorite shapes and objects-a rotting rudder, a rusting anchor, a decaying sheet of metal, bits of pottery, and some toy turtles-he contemplates for about an hour. "By this time," says he, "I am filled with fury for my work, and I am ready to jump off the balcony." Instead, he paints through the morning. After lunch and a rest, he sets...