Word: colors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news, satisfy the experts among TIME'S readers, and be clearly understandable to the uninitiated, as well. That is not an easy assignment, and Smith spends considerable time out of the office (e.g., the 1948 Olympic Games in London) keeping abreast of a dozen sports, getting the color, the background, and the "inside" details, that are vital to a successful TIME Sport story...
...Buenos Aires newsstands last week, the newest and slickest magazine was a monthly called Argentina. Packed with pictures and color, it had a heavy concentration of anti-American articles. They discussed the iniquities of U.S. comic strips, the horrors of U.S. "boastfulness," and U.S. failure to recognize Argentine greatness. Argentina, aimed at the Argentine intelligentsia, carried little advertising. Its editor was Secretary of Education Oscar Ivanissevich, 53, onetime ambassador...
Lancaster wears his considerable knowledge of Greek history and architecture without pretension, and his first-rate drawings in line and color make Classical Land, scape a far more attractive guide than the standard authorities. What gives Lancaster's book its special quality is the easy and pertinent shuttling from present to past and back to the immediate. His Anglo-Saxon standards, it turns out, left him with plenty to admire-from the Byzantine intrusions on the classic architecture so revered by the purists, to the Greeks themselves, whom he found lazy, but rarely rude or stupid...
...Gallegos government was overthrown, a White House secretary called the Simon Bolivar Memorial Foundation, which had arranged last summer's celebration in Bolivar. "The President," said the secretary, "would like to see your film on the Bolivar ceremony." Harry Truman sat silent through the half-hour, full-color documentary. Both his own speech and that of Gallegos were exhortations in praise of democracy. The movie over, the President said: "A fine picture. It says what we want to stress. It should be shown in every school of the Americas...
After trying "more things than you can shake a stick at," Drs. Atlas and Hottle found that tryptophane (an amino acid) and perchloric acid changed the color of a solution if the virus was present. The color deepened from pinkish brown to dark brown according to the quantity of virus present; if there was no virus, the solution stayed clear. The exact strength of the virus can be fixed by using a spectrophotometer, which measures color by comparing it with a standard. The researchers have been able to make as many as 112 tests a day; normally they...