Word: timber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minor, she presented one of the last Romantic interpretations of Bach. Schweitzer thinks that the sonata is unplayable today. He says that is can be played on a harpsichord and a violin with loosened bow to bring out the full flavor of the double-stopping. Wagner felt that the timber of the violin and the piano are naturally incompatible. Madame Carmirelli's accompanying pianist, Luis Battle, solved the problem by playing inconspicuously in the background, allowing the violin to dominate the sonata...
...been launching World War II bombing runs. Antique B-25s, the first U.S. planes to raid Tokyo, lumbered down the runway as old Liberator bombers tested their engines for takeoff. The planes were engaged in a different kind of warfare. More than 2.8 million acres of Alaska's timber and tundra-an area more than twice the size of Delaware -have burned this year. The planes' mission: dropping chemicals to slow the fires' advance...
...state's wilderness, considers this fire season the worst since statehood was achieved ten years ago. Authorities hired 2,192 men to stop the flames. As the planes attacked a blaze by dropping chemical retardants at its edge, bulldozers would rush in to cut firebreaks through the timber. Fourteen Army riverboats were readied on the Yukon and Tanana rivers to rescue villagers trapped by the flames...
...greater chance of accidental fires. Until recently, about 80% of Alaska's fires were caused by lightning, 20% by man; the ratio is now nearly reversed. Careless campers on the Kenai Peninsula, for example, left the embers that last month destroyed 2,578 acres of prime timber, most of it in a national moose range...
...most fascinating of all the communities. In Tune, it opened its giant Round Stone Barn. Built in 1825, the barn was widely cited during the 1880s as "machinelike in its efficiency" and "a model for the soundest dairying practices." Settlers on the Great Plains dotted the Western frontier with timber versions of it-most of which have now rotted away. By the time the Hancock village was taken over by the Berkshires' Shaker Community, Inc. in 1960, huge cracks had appeared in the Shaker barn's walls and the interior had fallen into ruin. Refurbished with...