Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well-known Rolling Power, picturing the wheels of a steam locomotive, could be mistaken for a tightly composed close-up photograph. But gradually Sheeler came to believe that "a picture could have incorporated in it the structural design implied in abstraction and have a wholly realistic manner." Often picking for his subjects simple, linear masses-barns, bridges, machines-Sheeler drafted knife-sharp contours and smooth surfaces, sometimes with bright and unrealistic colors...
...woman gets her hair dryer or new chair with stamps, she can convince herself she's a thrifty shopper." The "extras" most in demand at the redemption centers are relatively modest items that the average family can acquire in only a few months of stamp saving-steam spray irons (7½ books), bathroom scales (2½ books), wall-mounted can openers (1½ books). But for the truly ambitious saver, the premium catalogues offer Chevrolet Corvairs (700 books, which a family spending 20% of a $12,000 income with stamp-giving retailers could probably amass in 35 years...
...have been cowed by the business end of a bentwood chair, or how many Our Town lovers have sipped ice cream sodas in its cane-bottomed embrace. It was the creation of German Cabinetmaker Michael Thonet, who in 1836 discovered a way of bending wood by heating it in steam. Says Industrial Designer Henry Dreyfuss: "Whenever I see a bentwood chair, I want to whistle a Strauss waltz...
Connor's stand has only added steam to the students' drive. Promised one Negro leader last week: "We can keep it up as long as the white people." Under the students' energetic leadership, Birmingham's Negroes were, for the first time, becoming a community. And some white citizens were recalling the words of Salesman Carl Miller, one of the few Birmingham whites who spoke out last December against the park closings: "We're going to find ourselves with a big empty Birmingham. We won't have a damned thing, but we sure...
...take U.S. astronauts on their first flight as far out as the moon, passed its second test in a row with a perfect score. Its cluster of eight liquid-fuel engines lifted the 20-story, 927,000-lb. missile off the launch pad in a spectacular display of steam and ear-shattering sound. And since the test was concerned only with Saturn's first-stage booster, scientists were free to use the dummy upper stages for an ingenious experiment. Stored in Saturn's snout as ballast were 23,000 gal. of water weighing 95 tons. When the rocket...