Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telephone jangled sharply one morning last week in the redbrick, large-timbered, weather-beaten Plow Inn at Speen, Bucks., a little village nestling among the Chiltern Hills. "It's from London," someone cautioned, and the early customers waited expectantly. "Well, we've done it," giggled a feminine voice from the London end. "They've done it!" shouted the bartender. No explanation was needed for the pub's regular customers. "They" meant the owner of the Plow, plain-featured, 35-year-old Ishbel Allen MacDonald, daughter of the late longtime Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald...
...cracks between the blocks after they are laid down. Liquid Iceolite is poured into molds, congeals into blocks 2 by 3 ft. and 1½ in. thick. They can be laid on any level surface-wood, concrete, steel, or whatnot. Since it is impervious to moisture and hot weather, Iceolite can be skated on in any climate and at any season. Its makers offer, by adding the proper dyes, to furnish it in any color...
What Artist Earle crossed the U. S. to see was not city life but countryside. Result: a sheaf of landscapes remarkable for their suggestion of distances, land masses and weather moods, a soft poem of U. S. mountains as Pare Lorentz' documentary movie, The River (TIME, Nov. 8), is a hard poem of U. S. rivers. In Desert Near Santa Fe he caught with a series of fine washes, quickly dried with the brush, the 90-mile, lucent light of the Southwest; in Color Splendor he framed the broad Shenandoah Valley. Critics who doubt the permanency of soft poems...
...Ridge Road, which shows a big red truck about to crash head-on into a black sedan at a hilltop curve. Pages of statistics prove that most fatal accidents occur to experienced male drivers in the prime of life going straight ahead on dry roads in clear weather-but at high speed. Most arresting fact: In all its history the U. S. has had but 15 years* of war, with a total killed of 244,357. Killed on U. S. highways during the last 15 years of peace...
...pray") is mixed with the technique of shearing; observations on the sexual prowess of rams with gossip about his neighbors; market conditions with a description of bathing with his wife in washtubs ("one felt it as something out of Daumier or Cruikshank, of Degas or Rembrandt"); dissertations on the weather with proposed reforms for farmers' dress (kilts and beard...