Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fertile parts of the sea, the surface water is kept supplied with nutrients by some sort of upwelling that brings rich bottom water to the surface. In far northern and far southern parts of the ocean,-the surface water gets so cold and heavy in winter that it sinks and is replaced by bottom water that contains plant nutrients. Currents carry these nutrients to other seas, e.g., the Labrador Current off the Newfoundland banks, the Peru Current off the coast of South America, and produce rich fishing grounds...
...reach Eskimos in Canada's Western north, Inuktitut will print a separate edition in the Roman characters familiar to that region. The magazine must go out in spring before the Arctic thaw, in summer after the river ice has melted, in fall before the freeze, and in winter before the curtain of the Arctic night...
...advice was fine, but results were slow. In the early winter of 1901, while Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines limped toward Broadway, 21-year-old Ethel Barrymore was sick with fear. And she suffered doubly because she had been born to the stage. Her father, Maurice Barrymore, was a matinee idol. Her actress mother, Georgiana Drew Barrymore, and her uncle, John Drew, two of the topflight actors of the day, could trace their lineage back to the strolling players of Elizabethan England. Anxious not to disgrace the family, Ethel asked herself over and over again: "Why am I doing...
Mario Prassinos' large (79 in. by 99 in.) Winter and Mathieu Mategot's Cosmorama (86 in. by 161 in.) would brighten any bare modern wall. Purists argue that translation from painted sketch to woven wool muffles the impact of the artist's intent. Certainly, tapestry has rarely been a medium for great art. But for works short of the greatest, tapestries have a disarming informality, and a richness of warp and weft that compensates for the loss of the immediacy that only the artist's brush can give...
...most nagging worry of the recovery was the relatively slow drop in the rolls of the unemployed. After the jobless held at about 7% of the labor force through most of the recession, the figures dipped below 6% in November, then stayed between 5% and 6% throughout the winter, causing the experts to wonder if they might not hover there indefinitely. The May breakthrough proved the experts happily wrong, particularly since the best news came from the manufacturing industries hardest hit by recession. At a time when factory employment normally stabilizes as producers start slowing down for the summer, factory...