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Word: trough (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talked for a while about the war, and then he turned down the garden hose and laid it in a trough he had made around a lemon tree...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: From the Vietnamese We'll Have to Learn To Create a Society In Which To Live | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

...mirror. It is set behind large stainless-steel doors at the focal point of the parabola-where the sun's scorching rays are concentrated into a blazing circle only twelve inches wide. Target material, hoisted into place by a ten-ton lift, is placed into an inclined trough-as the target melts, it runs off into catch pans. Another, more sophisticated technique is to load the material into two aluminum vats whose outer walls are water-cooled to prevent melting. Placed with their open ends at the focal point and rotated like washing machines to distribute the heat evenly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sun Power in the Pyrenees | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...talked for a while and then he turned down the garden hose and laid it in a trough he had made around a lemon tree...

Author: By Gary Snyder, | Title: Stay in the Streets: Why | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

Sculptor Neke Carson designed a combination fountain-environment that is beautiful to look at and fun to be in. Participants sit inside two large plastic bubbles and watch smaller plastic bubbles floating about in a trough of gurgling water. Ted Hallman, a Zen Buddhism enthusiast, used 100 lbs. of yarn for his African-looking hut. "My idea was to make an environment that was comfortable, soft, with neutral colors and a calming effect," he says. The hit of the show is Furniture Designer Wendell Castle's laminated oak "reclining space for one." Open a marvelously sculptured door and there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Time for Spaces | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

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