Word: clays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which also saw trouble last year, Publisher Bud Calman of the News reported: "I've been up and down the street these last three days trying to appraise our situation, and I haven't heard one word which would indicate trouble." Said a school official in nearby Clay: "I don't believe we'll have any trouble-but you never can tell...
...hundreds of clay tablets found in the ruins of King Minos' palace at Knossos, Crete, and on the supposed site of King Nestor's palace near Pylos on the Greek mainland long provided archaeology with one of its most tantalizing mysteries. The tablets bore two scripts which scholars call Linear A and Linear B. But it was not until 1952-more than half a century after the Crete discovery -that Michael Ventris, British architect and cryptographer, broke Linear B, announced that its 87 "signs" closely paralleled Greek syllables (TIME, April 19, 1954). But what about Linear A? Even...
...Greeks began making the vases in the 7th century B.C. with the figures painted in solid black on the reddish clay of the vase. Details were engraved on the black figures with a sharp instrument of some sort, and white and dark red were used as accessory colors. In about 530 B.C. the red-figure technique was introduced, with the background painted black and the figures left in the original reddish color of the vase. Painter and potter worked as a team. The potter threw his shape on the wheel and handed it over to the painter...
...Best Ever. It is doubtful that the new Althea will ever again be in the same kind of emotional pressure cabin. In Chicago last month, when she turned up for the national Clay Courts championship, hotels in stuffy Oak Park would not rent her a room; the swank Pump Room of the Ambassador East Hotel refused reservations for a luncheon in her honor. Officials and newsmen burned with rage, but Althea hardly noticed it. "I tried to feel responsibilities to Negroes, but that was a burden on my shoulders," says she. "If I did this or that, would they like...
...treating their analysis bills as medical expenses, thus charging off some portion. ¶ Two Kansans filed suit against medical laboratories and highway patrolmen for damages in return for small blood samples (less than two teaspoonfuls) taken from them to test their sobriety after highway accidents. Fred Pfizenmaier, 50, of Clay Center, asked $10,000 for his blood, which tested at 185 mg. of alcohol in 100 cc. of blood (150 mg. being the legal intoxication line). But Alva Nichols, 41, of Eldorado, wanted $75,000 for his sample, which tested at a riotously drunk 285 mg. after a three...