Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prized & Profitable. Standing, in some cases, over 300 ft. high, redwoods are prized by the public-and profitable to the loggers. Their wood is rotproof, termiteproof and practically weatherproof, nonwarping, retentive of paint and, because of its softness, easy to work. Before the days of cheap, non-corrosive metals, it was widely used for sluice boxes, water tanks, pipelines, pier piles, fences and wine casks. Today, homeowners use it for outdoor terraces and to panel both exteriors and interiors. So well does the wood sell that profits sometimes exceed 25% of total earnings. The Arcata Redwood Co., for instance, made...
...both evocative and entertaining, as Lanford Wilson re-creates the mood and the milieu of a ghost mining town in the Midwest. Fluidly paced by Director Michael Kahn, Rimers is a collection of vignettes that might have come from Winesburg, Ohio, set in the dramatic form of Under Milk Wood...
Sculptors once created statues out of marble and wood because the materials were there and, besides, they were beautiful. Some contemporary sculptors use "found objects"-stovepipes, bedsprings and other bits of wreckage from junkyards or used-car lots-because these materials are there and because the artists feel that their ugliness reflects the seaminess of the times...
...years ago, another anonymous admirer shelled out $90,000 for Jacqueline's other Strad-the famous "Davidov," once owned by the 19th century Russian cellist Carl Davidov. "The first has an earthy, peasant sound," Jacqueline says. "The Davidov is fine and clear. The extraordinary thing is that the wood still lives after 300 years...
...York football Giants picked up Minnesota quarterback Fran Tarkenton yesterday in a move to climb from the NFL cellar and help New York fans forget the similarly scrambling Cornellian. Gary Wood, who was given away to the New Orleans Saints last month. Tarkenton, who refused to return to the Vikings, was purchased dearly -- for this year's top two draft choices, the number one pick the next year, and a player to be agreed...