Word: shores
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...others, before him, John Lee Richmond and John Ward in 1880; since Young: Adrian Joss, 1908, Ernest Shore, 1917, Charles Robertson...
...game in Africa and India. When he was not traveling abroad. Woodward divided his time between a Manhattan town house on East 73rd Street, his 2,500-acre Belair Stud Farm* near Bowie, Md. and a 60-acre estate at Oyster Bay on Long Island's North Shore...
...from which Inland hopes to get 3,000,000 tons a year by 1969; a 19-story, stainless-steel office building, one of the few new skyscrapers in Chicago since the Depression; a land-filling project near Inland's Indiana Harbor plant on Lake Michigan's south shore to give Inland 462 acres of what is now lake for future plant expansion; three giant open-hearth furnaces; three new mills. Said Inland's Joe Block: "This program indicates our confidence in the future of the country, the Chicago area and the steel industry...
Well might Connecticut's Fairfield County be indignant. Well might the fire bells ring through Pennsylvania's Bucks, and icy disdain waft across Long Island's North Shore. For Author Spectorsky, once a commuter himself, has turned traitor to his class and performed a hatchet job on the commuting world around New York City. He writes not about Suburbia ("dull and demure domesticity") but about Exurbia, his word for the belt just beyond. Unlike many more naive chroniclers, Spectorsky does not pretend that all the suburbs or exurbs are alike. And he records the differences with...
Lashed by the surf, lacerated by shore ice, alternately drenched and desiccated, the tiny inhabitants of the marine demimonde learn to live dangerously and adapt to the challenges of intertidal life. From a thousand examples, Author Carson evokes all the moods of the edge of the sea and of its inhabitants-strange, ugly, beautiful, bizarre. Nature's grace, order and mystery flow through her book like an underwater ballet. Again Author Carson has shown her remarkable talent for catching the life breath of science on the still glass of poetry...