Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...control brick building on Oxford Street is a big control panel and with row on row of dials, and a plethora of red, green, and orange lights. From here operator can control everything on inside the big concrete walls. the operator, up against the wall, is a triple tier of counters on stilts which merrily click and boast little varicolored lights their own. Along the passageway to the gray edifice are large boxes with additional controls. Cyclotron consists of three major...
...winner's rewards: $300 a week, stardom as Tamba, and tier own masseur (since chimps have sluggish blood circulation, the A.S.P.C.A. requires that chimp actors get a good rubdown after swimming scenes). Otherwise, the new star's life will be no tied of orchids. All her money will not even buy her a square meal-she must be kept hungry during the working day, so that the lure of a banana or candy can be used to help along her acting talents...
Stalled Cities. While Westerners waded, one of the most sudden and violent storms in memory swept north up a wide tier of Eastern states. Blizzards almost completely paralyzed Ohio and Pennsylvania. Twenty inches of snow fell on Cleveland, 29 inches on Youngstown, 18 on Akron, 28 on Pittsburgh, 38 on Washington, Pa. The Pennsylvania Turnpike and virtually all other roads in both states were blocked by enormous drifts, airports closed, trains stopped or ran hours behind schedule. In Ohio, 20,000 cars were abandoned on the highways...
After she went to her berth, "I sat drinking my milk and thinking about tier," writes Author Farrell. Readers will wish that he had thought longer, or that a sharper writer had done his writing for him. For while Dream Girl is built around a pretentious theme, Author Farrell can muster only nine undercooked stories to support it. His more familiar squalor tales and mass-and-class ruminations pad out the rest of the book, but they justify their intrusion only a couple of times. The Fastest Runner on Sixty-First Street (a sprinting champion who runs straight...
...valuable baggage of anecdote, legend, old documents, and excerpts from fron tier diaries. A generous sprinkling of old prints and photographs helps to make This Reckless Breed of Men an impor tant discovery for any armchair explorer of western Americana...