Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abandoned stone quarries, if they are used at all, are generally used only as swimming holes. But in the last year Esso Standard Oil has spent about $500,000 making an oil storage tank out of a vacant quarry at Wind Gap, Pa. Last week Esso pumped the first oil from its Linden, N.J. Bayway Refinery 65 miles through a 6-in. pipeline into the huge pit, capable of holding about 1,000,000 bbls. of heating...
...threaded his way with quick gait through the grey stone château resort high in the pines of the Black Forest, past his fellow guests and their nurses. On vacation, he looked as chipper as ever, walking in the morning amid the trees, kneeling for as long as an hour in the chapel, while Paul, his son, said Mass. He joshed the hotel servants; when a waiter with a Rhineland accent brought the corkscrew to open some 40-year-old brandy, he insisted that the man drink with...
...racing at Aqueduct under way, Horse Professor Matheson moved into New York for the fall term, got set to give his usual monthly series of lectures between trips to the track. Average enrollment: 65. "This is the best racing in the world," said Matheson, as he looked at the stone spires of Manhattan. "The town is full of horse players...
...Riding down the stone stairs at horse neck...
Nearly 100 stone steps for the accommodation of foot Passengers, the Brittish dragoons, durst not follow the in tripid horseman down the precipice...