Word: wood
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...regents named him to succeed retiring President Terris Moore, a brilliant rescue pilot who (quipped the campus newspaper) "spent more time in the clouds than in the classroom." Last week there was no such complaint as President Patty, 65, announced his own retirement in favor of William Ransom Wood, 53, academic vice president of the University of Nevada. All things considered, the nation's northernmost campus (100 miles south of the Arctic Circle) has never been in better shape...
...history of TIME'S cover portrait on this Easter issue is as touched with mystery as the life of the cover subject. This luminous, tempera-on-wood painting of St. Paul, one of the finest examples of early Italian Renaissance art, hangs in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The experts do not agree on who the artist was; most attribute it to the 14th century school of Simone Martini in Siena. Yet the master himself was probably not the painter; most likely, it is the work of his brother-in-law and pupil, Lippo Memmi. Experts speculate...
Coined-Humane, e.g., "He was always coined to animals." Faints-A barricade of wood or brick...
Today, the roof is making a dramatic comeback. One prime mover in the trend is Florida and Manhattan Architect Vic tor Lundy, 37. Working in laminated wood and reinforced concrete, Lundy has designed churches, schools, homes, motels and shops that seem to make a whole building out of the roof. The results are structures that have an evocative beauty, come at bargain prices, and pack a strong emotional wallop (see color pages...
Author Lee had advantages that derived from his disadvantages. His father had deserted his family when Laurie was a baby, and a mother with a brood of six is never a match for an imaginative boy. Besides, he was often sick, and so came in for special treatment: puddings, wood fires in his room, the respect that brothers and sisters feel for a fellow who has been so close to death (pneumonia) that his body was once washed for a funeral. They lived in a tumble-down house in the Cotswolds, but mother and children-at least by Author...