Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Progress has always been the great bulldozer, demolishing Greek temples for paving stones and palace walls for slums. How in the New World is the graceful Georgian mansion to withstand the shopping center, or the columned grandeur of Pennsylvania Station to prevail against the flat, glass-curtain wall...
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...prospects for a dollar-green Christmas in the stores -all these have contributed to a shift toward optimism in the business community. The new consensus is that the economy may actually rise a bit in the first half of 1963, and at worst will inch down only slightly. On Wall Street, the changed mood was reflected last week in the Dow-Jones industrial average, which rose 14.85 to close at just under 631. The market has risen more than 60 points in the past three weeks...
...Straws. Steinar of Hlidar, a typical Laxness peasant-hero, grows restive with life on his small farm, where he works on a stone wall begun by his greatgrandfather and regales his children with fairy tales. He longs for spiritual challenge. A Mormon missionary, one of many who came to Iceland in the late 19th century, provides it. The missionary urges him to seek a paradise on the "other side of the moon" in Utah, where great principles are lived out in hardship and suffering: "You must renounce home and family and possessions. That is how to be a Mormon...
With a Brobdingnagian forward wall that outweighs both the Crimson and Eli varsities and a stellar backfield, featuring the running of fullback Keith Striggow who is averaging six yards per carry, the Elephants rate a solid favorite today...