Word: wander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shell had played its strike carefully, but oilmen got a hint that something was in the wind even before the announcement. When the company started drilling last month 60 miles southwest of Ely, anyone could wander around and look to his heart's content. But after ten days of drilling, Shell suddenly changed its mind. It put up a sign warning away visitors and built a fence around the operation. But by the time the well was brought in, at 6,433 ft, shrewd Nevadans were already trickling into Reno's land office, snapping...
Guess that's enough for you to start with. Think we had some pretty funny stuff in February, no matter what they say. I, for one, am through worrying. Hear there's a dance or flick tonight at the Great Hall and I guess I might as well wander on over...
Windowed Nook. Curator Rousseau, who believes that "a museum should be essentially a theater where a visitor can find delight and entertainment," had done everything possible to make the galleries a refreshing place in which to wander and look. In the larger galleries, unobtrusive labels over each painting gave the name of the artist, so that it was no longer necessary to squint closely at a picture to see who did it. Conveniently placed in the chronological order of the galleries was a windowed nook. There gallerygoers may rest on comfortable couches, smoke and contemplate either Central Park...
This unique auditorium consists mainly of several hundreds of tons of concrete roof in the shape of a spherical triangle, "floating" on three ball and socket type joints that allow it to wander a little when expanding or contracting. The diminutive walls have to be kept clear of the moving, self-supporting roof. Now swaddled in canvas and scaffolding, the structure looks non-descript in the extreme. But, undaunted by its present mud-pie look, R. M. Kimball, chairman of the building committee, expects "wonderful things" from the auditorium...
...mythology of India, the Himalaya is the home of the gods. Shiva and Vishnu wander through the everlasting snows on the ridge of the world. Thus, when European expeditions trail off into the mountains of Nepal, Buddhist peasants assume that the strangers are going to look for heaven. Last week the film record of the two latest Himalayan expeditions, put on public view, showed heaven and hell interfused in some of the most terrifyingly beautiful pictures ever to move across a screen...