Word: biennially
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...through 1953. Then, barring drastic international crisis, draft quotas will drop to 19,000 per month during the first half of 1954. But beginning in July 1954, the number will jump to 45,000 a month. Reasons: 1) since the big buildup of 1951, the Army has faced a biennial wave of discharges, and the wave will hit next in the summer of 1954; 2) truce or no truce, the U.S. plans to keep the Army at its current strength...
...biennial conference of the Transport and General Workers' Union-Britain's biggest-met at Southsea, hard by Portsmouth docks. Bevanites hoped to make trouble. When bluff, able Arthur Deakin, 62, the union's general secretary, marched into the hall, packed with 800 representatives of the union's truck drivers and milkmen, trawlermen and stable lads, home helps and gravediggers, someone reminded him that Nelson's flagship Victory, with its hangman's yardarm, was not far away. Deakin smiled grimly. "We don't need the yardarm," said...
...section show of U.S. paintings. For laymen, it is an opportunity to see the nation's best representatives of every school of contemporary art; for the painters whose works are shown, it means acceptance into the top ranks of U.S. artists. This week the Corcoran opened its 23rd biennial show-a lavish spread of 226 paintings-and announced the four prizewinners. The $2,000 First Prize went to Abraham Rattner's glowing Composition with Three Figures (opposite). A pleasantly romantic still life by Hobson Pittman took second money, Francis Chapin sailed in third with Regatta at Edgartown (opposite...
Pittsburgh's Carnegie International is one of the three great biennial shows (with Venice's and Sao Paulo's) that survey and measure contemporary art from all over the world. For the 39th Carnegie, which opened last week, the museum's new director, Gordon Washburn, chose 305 paintings from 24 nations. They make a generally lively show, but one that belies...
With these lines, a Belgian poetess registered her protest against Fellow Poetess Pierette Micheloud, of Vex, Switzerland, who insisted on puffing away at a long-stemmed, elegant pipe. The limerick was by far the sharpest contribution heard at the First International Poetry Biennial, which assembled 200 poets from 30 countries at Knokke le Zoute, Belgian seaside resort, to spend a happy four days talking shop and eying each other's iambs...