Search Details

Word: copperizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...present Chatsworth, their ducal seat, was completed in 1706. Besides such wonders as a copper beech tree fashioned of real copper and a conservatory large enough to drive through in a coach-and-four (so that visitors would not have to step down from their carriage to see the blossoms), Chatsworth boasts one of the world's greatest private art collections. Its graceful galleries are hung with Michelangelos, Raphaels, Titians, Velasquezes and Rembrandts. Its bookcases are crammed with rare manuscripts and incunabula; its halls are studded with classic sculpture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Of Death & Taxes | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...great radio telescope now under construction at Jodrell Bank near Manchester, England will have a "steerable" saucer of copper mesh 250 ft. in diameter. Acting like the concave mirror of an optical telescope, it will concentrate radio frequency waves sent to the earth by dark "radio stars" and faraway galaxies. Mostly it will be busy with the complex problems of astrophysics, but last week Professor A. C. Lovell, head of Jodrell Bank research station, admitted that the great dish might be used occasionally on projects with more immediate popular appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Echo from Mars | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

...with Mamie at Camp David, his hideout in Maryland's Catoctin Mountain. He visited his nearby farm at Gettysburg. Pa., waded through waist-high wheat, then returned to Camp David for a session with bridge-playing friends. To the D-day anniversary ceremonies in Normandy he sent a copper torch and message, recalling Allied wartime unity (item: "My pleasant association with the outstanding soldier, Marshal Zhukov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: D-Plus-3652 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...stand, burly (235 Ibs.) ex-Copper Shoulders broke down and sobbed: "How much can a guy take?" Last week came the answer and sentences: three years in prison for Shoulders, two for Dolan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Money & Time | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...that was not consumed. The pulpit will be in the center, a return to the custom of ancient times, which emphasized what Rabbi Cohen calls "the democratic relationship between the religious leader and the congregation." The exterior will be double-walled-blue-tinted plastic under white-wired glass. A copper cap covering the pyramid will proclaim in large Hebrew letters: "I am the Lord thy God." Rabbi Cohen hopes to break ground for the $750,000 synagogue in Philadelphia's suburban Elkins Park next fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Promised Hosanna | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

Previous | 404 | 405 | 406 | 407 | 408 | 409 | 410 | 411 | 412 | 413 | 414 | 415 | 416 | 417 | 418 | 419 | 420 | 421 | 422 | 423 | 424 | Next