Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happy, cavity-free citizens of Deaf Smith County, Tex., where fluorine exists in judicious quantities in soil and water (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). They have seen movies of Ripley, Ont., which has so much natural fluorine that the dentists' chief occupation is holding citizens' mouths open to display their perfect teeth. These demonstrations make laymen wonder why experimental use of fluorine has been limited to a few small-scale ventures...
...better show since 1872, when showers of stone killed 20. (By week's end the present eruption had caused 26 deaths.) But the little geophysicist was also sure that the show was "effusive" and not "explosive"; he had been much more impressed by the 1928 display of Sicily's Mt. Etna...
...half a century the towering ghost of Edgar Degas, famed 19th-Century French painter of ballerinas, has kept serious artists away from the subject of ballet dancers. But gifted Gladys Rockmore Davis, No. 1 U.S. woman painter of women, is not afraid of ghosts. Last week a display of her work appeared in LIFE. This week, in Manhattan's Midtown Galleries, Painter Davis exhibited Ballet Backstage, 20 small, dramatically colored canvases conceived in the drafty wings and over-perfumed dressing rooms of the Metropolitan Opera House, during performances of the Ballet Theater...
...pair of salvage-pile symphonists took time out recently to display their devotion to one of the oldest, most discordant traditions in U.S. show business: the One-Man Band. Their meeting for the "world championship" occurred on the Blue Network's Breakfast Club (8 a.m., C.W.T...
...movie itself is an utterly blameless attempt to display the faces and figures of a number of models under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is also a vehicle for Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly and the average moviegoer has seen the same thing two or three times before. No particular effort was expended in the writing of the script, and the picture vibrates rapidly between the ancient and the inane...