Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alarming increases" of the disease were reported by Microbiologist Marie L. Koch of the Wood (Wis.) Veterans Administration Center. There she found 297 cases, 156 in patients who also had tuberculosis and 141 in those free of TB. There has been a startlingly rapid increase in numbers of cases from 1954 to 1955. From Georgia's Battey State Hospital, Dr. Horace E. Crow reported discovery of a similar (perhaps the same) mystery bacillus in 69 patients...
...coal. Tradition has it that she first caught the eye of Painter Puvis de Chavannes when she delivered his laundry. Struck by her slim figure and natural grace, he made her the model for all the figures (both male and female) in his most celebrated painting, The Sacred Wood. Other assignments soon followed. Auguste Renoir used her as the model for his contrasting pictures, Country Dance and City Dance. Toulouse-Lautrec's drawing of her, Gueule de Bois (The Hangover), so attracted Van Gogh that he wrote his brother, eagerly inquiring: "Has De Lautrec finished his picture...
...sacred word Fatherland. When I was 15 I ceased to believe in God. God had proved to be an ally of the murderers of Lech. For long hours I knelt in a dark, empty church. The day finally came when the cross became to me only a piece of wood...
...start with. On the U.S. Department of Labor wholesale price index, steel prices between 1939 and April 1956 rose 131%. about the average for all commodities. However, many industries where demand was also high got much bigger price boosts, e.g., nonferrous metals went up 195%, lumber and wood products 305%. Furthermore, as Republic Steel President C. M. White points out, the industry's net income in relation to its worth has usually lagged well behind other industries. As one result, says White, steel stocks have a market value of only eight to ten times earnings, while chemical stocks sell...
...size of a spacious city of 15,000 inhabitants, [Harvard] is built like an imaginary city in an eighteenth century Dutch of French painting, set in a decor of the Russian opera. The trees and walls are real, and the buildings are built of wood--like all houses in New England; but the wood is laquered, and waxed and varnished. Harvard may well have had a two or three hundred-year history, and the list of alumni may grow longer on the plaques in the Houses: but no one fears the past. The four million books in Widener Library...