Word: 1900s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three years Ackerman has worked in the Wallace Shipyards, helping build his 97-ft.-long schooner. Her hold can accommodate 150 tons of freight and haul it cheaply and cleanly along the New England coast, or south to Haiti, into the Caribbean, and back. As recently as the early 1900s, schooners carried most of New England's southbound ice, fish, lumber and granite, returning with molasses and coal. But not for 40 years has such a commercial vessel been built, and Ackerman intends to turn a profit with this one. "It better," he proclaims, "and it will." Like...
...worked as a cleaning woman in Manhattan, tells about her first film role as Richard Gere's kid sister in Days of Heaven. "Ursula was the name of the character at first, but they changed it to Linda, 'cause it was me. It ain't no girl in the 1900s." The film is a strange, dreamlike reminiscence of days when migrant harvesters followed steam-driven threshing machines through the wheatfields of the Texas Panhandle. As in a dream, a flickering story line is overwhelmed by visual images?blowing wheat, threshers outlined against a sunset, locusts darkening the sky. Linda...
...University finds difficulty in accepting the reality that we are out of the days of Hamilton Fish. The promise of athletic excellence that McLaughlin wants can't be achieved easily, because the great athletes who went Ivy in the early 1900s now go Big Ten or Pac Eight...
...have limited their choice of long-legged wading birds to a single family, the Ardeidae, which comprises some 61 species. The Snowy Egret graces the dust jacket, wearing the plumes, or aigrettes, that caused a heedless millinery trade to slaughter it to the brink of extinction in the early 1900s. But, as Emily Dickinson pointed out, hope is a thing with feathers, and today the protected Snowy has become a common sight-as well as a hopeful symbol of conservation in general...
...Douglas explained, Sollas was a pillar of British science in the early 1900s, but his position was being increasingly challenged by a rising young star in anthropology, Arthur Smith Woodward. Indeed, at one scientific meeting of the Geological Society, Smith Woodward actually derided a presentation made by the older man. Recalled Douglas, who was present at that almost forgotten confrontation: "Sollas said nothing at all', but I could see he was absolutely livid...