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...much energy on their vaguely Quixotic quest, the monks should see if it changes their minds to sit in the Lowell courtyard and let the bell-boys (and girls) do their thing for a few hours or twenty. After that, if they still want the things, let them spruce up Putin’s not-quite-police-state however they...
...Britain, prices rose this year after growers lost much of their crop to the heatwave. A 1.8-m Norway spruce, the most popular variety, will cost at least $25. But if those garden-centre specimens are a little too spindly for your taste, there's always the fake fir option. A 1.8-m "decorated silver and gold fibre optic tree" will set you back $85 at U.K. retailer Argos...
...even though HLS Dean Elena Kagan promised to spruce up Harkness Commons, restrictions on the landmark piece of architecture will likely make it difficult for construction crews to make major changes the so-called Hark, which currently houses the HLS cafeteria and functions as the primary social space at the law school...
Hughes is remembered today as the billionaire bohemian who built that Edsel of airplanes, the Spruce Goose, and spent the late 1960s as the reclusive, emaciated owner of a slew of Las Vegas hotels and casinos. His death in 1976, as a reader wrote to TIME, "disproved the saying that 'you can never be too rich or too thin...
...link between past and present is the special spruce and maple wood of the Transylvanian forests near the Gliga factory in Reghin. It is a resource so prized by violin makers that the nearby Gurghiului Valley is commonly known as Italian valley, after the luthiers who are said to have journeyed there from Cremona, Italy, the home of the masters, in search of perfect wood. According to Gliga, who grew up in the valley, the critical ingredient is the abundance of flamed maple (also called curly sycamore), the strikingly grained wood of choice for the back of violins. More specifically...