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With the pipes in places, two parallel trenches are dug, about ten feet apart and three feet wide. These slices reveal the earth layers piled on top of one another, and the digging--a chore which falls on trained college and graduate students--proceeds horizontally from one trench to the other, one thin layer at a time. The digger usually pokes his way along with a large screw driver bent into a right angle. Occasionally he uses a spatula-like tool to skim off the dirt. As the work proceeds boards are placed down to prevent damage to the underlying...
...general patterns and are described with bewildering terminology. The best possible position is "sole star billing" or "100% alone above.'' This describes a name so momentous that it appears alone above the title of the production in characters 100% as large as the title itself. The next trench is "star billing''-above the title, with other names underneath, and so on down to all the tricky below-decks devices, such as names in boxes (a favorite for musical directors and choreographers). Then there is the "as" line for disgruntled second fiddles and for stars who take...
...tailor flatteringly but fairly describes him as "the best-dressed stout man I know-above conservative, not afraid to look well-dressed." Gleason orders about a dozen suits a year, paying as little as $285 for a little grey nothing, sometimes going exotic with such items as a cashmere trench coat or pink slacks. He once gave his tailor a single $7,500 order. He is 47 in. at the bulge, but it sometimes swells to 51 in., and he has to keep a triple wardrobe. Each "medium weight'' Gleason suit (designed to cover approximately...
Information on trade and industry in Lydian kingdom of Croesus, in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C., came from excavation of the Lydian bazaar in a great trench south of the modern highway. Heaps of ashes lying in a circle, moulds with bits of bronze, and actual bronze objects showed that large-scale bronze casting was carried...
...tension that exists among the people in Soviet satellites does not manifest itself strongly in Yugoslavia. People on the streets show no signs of repression or nervousness despite the danger of discussing such matters as politics on the street (I am told that public places abound with trench-coated slouch-hatted secret police types though I never noticed any myself), Propriety must be observed and the Croats and Slovenes (who inhabit the North) are probably fully accustomed to its necessity after several hundred years under Austian domination. It certainly does not effect their day to day behavior as similar restrictions...