Word: wood
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...airport to the docks. There they climbed aboard an R.A.F. rescue launch and were taken to the cruiser H.M.S. Tiger, which was anchored half a mile offshore in Algeciras Bay. Dog tired, and somewhat unsettled by the heavy swells of the sea, Wilson and Smith met briefly in the wood-paneled captain's quarters of the Tiger, then went to bed. Two hours after dawn, the cruiser weighed anchor, wallowed out into the stormy straits and headed eastward into the Mediterranean. Except for their advisers and the Tiger's somewhat baffled crew, Wilson and Smith were alone...
...GREAT MASTERS OF UKIYO-E (2 vols.). East-West Center Press. $25. Wood-block prints by two Japanese artists. The Hokusai series is "The Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji," while Hiroshige celebrates the joys and troubles of the road in the early 1800s...
ROMAN AFRICA IN COLOR by Roger Wood and Sir Mortimer Wheeler. 160 pages. McGraw-Hill. $25. A tour of dead cities washed by the Mediterranean, with their groves of white columns, deserted temples, amphitheaters, markets and wheel-rutted streets. The Roman Empire in Africa stretched from Alexandria on the border of Egypt across to Tangier on the Strait of Gibraltar; its remarkably preserved ruins give the best picture of the Ancient World available today...
...aspects of the damage which cannot be appraised now. The degree to which the foundations of buildings have been weakened by the flood is not yet apparent nor will the damage to paintings and frescoes incurred by the change in humidity be known for many years. In addition, all wood panels, furniture, sculpture, and intarisa may swell unevenly and crack as a result of the saturated atmosphere or partial immersion. A piece which was touched only at the bottom by the moisture may split all the way to the top as a result of this uneven swelling, and much...
...breathe is being polluted by fumes from automobiles and factories. Our rivers, lakes and ocean fronts are being destroyed by pouring into them human and factory wastes. One of the worst polluters is the paper industry. How can we return to the soil the chemically treated wood waste now going into our rivers...