Word: tyroler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million loan is for the Reisseck-Kreuzeck power project to help add 112,000 kw. of generating capacity by 1958; the other $10 million loan will go toward new dams and power stations to add 190,000 kw. of new capacity to the 111 River system in the Austrian Tyrol...
Like their forebears', the violinmakers' first problem is finding the right wood. Some of it comes from the Italian Tyrol, some from the beams of 16th century buildings-fir for resonant belly and side walls, hard maple for back, neck and scroll. It is seasoned for 25 to 300 years. Testing for quality, the fathers twisted and tapped the wood as they worked it; their sons now listen with electronic ears and compute its acoustical properties. The instrument is put together with glue-also mixed for its resonant qualities-and at that point it is as mechanically perfect...
...Austrian College Society in Alpbach, Tyrol, gives an August seminar on the theme of "Knowledge and Action." At Bad Ischl a discussion in economics is arranged from August 28 to September 2 on the subject of "The Village in Relation to Present-day Industrial Development" by the Upper Austrian Society for Economic Sciences...
...Protestant Anabaptist sect founded in 1528 by Jacob Hutter in the Swiss Tyrol...
...this wicked world. In fact, U.S. foreign policy since the war has been governed repeatedly, not by altruistic abstractions, not by sober assessment of world realities, not even (always) by fear of the U.S.S.R., but by cynical, domestic vote catching. The line on such issues as Palestine and South Tyrol and the timing of announcements on them were not argued on merit, but determined by their supposed attractiveness to this or that section of the American electorate . . . My of contrast Communism between and the the "Christian heresy "anti-Christian paganism" of Naziism, which excites some TIME-readers to such unchristian...