Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stone these days is called 14 lbs. Using my roommate's weight of 155 lbs., his weight in stones is approximately 11.1 stones, and the drop necessary is 37 ft. In an unfortunate experiment to test the formula, the rope not only broke his neck, but pulled his head right...
...want to get along, go along." More than 20 members addressed the House. Party lines were wiped out. Ten nessee's Democratic Representative Ross Bass lashed the Republicans for not supporting the bill. As he spoke, Democratic Representative James C. Davis (who has a textile mill in his Stone Mountain, Ga. district) was conferring with Dan Reed about beating it, while Republican Joe Martin had crossed the aisle to consult with Democrat Jere Cooper...
...Kastoria 217 repatriates, sent back last year from Rumania and Czechoslovakia, are living wretchedly in four ramshackle stone buildings. Each got 150 drachmas ($5) from the government the day he arrived in Greece, nothing since...
When the town fathers of Bristol, Va. (pop. 15,954) set aside $8,500 for "ornamental stone" to decorate their new $1,200,000 high school, they did not specify exactly what they wanted. The choice was left to the school's architect, who decided on a piece from one of Italy's leading modern sculptors, Pericle Fazzini (TIME, May 7, 1951). But when the packing case arrived from Rome last year and the school officials got their first look, they gasped in pained surprise. Inside was a 6½ft. expressionistic bronze statue of a nude...
Tough-minded Textileman Royal Little, 58, says he got bald the hard way: by "butting into stone walls." As boss since 1928 of Textron, Inc., he built up a $55 million firm on the theory that what the textile industry needed was a fully integrated company that produced everything from the staple to such finished goods as negligees, blouses and bedspreads. Until 1948 the theory worked well, and Textron prospered with the rest of the textile industry, but when the industry went into its postwar slump Textron's profits turned to losses. Little found out that in the textile...