Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern as his methods, and like most modern art, it draws heavily and unashamedly on arts of the distant past. Smith's sculptures can look like junk-shop equivalents of savage fetishes, bird cages twisted out of shape, elaborate cookie-cutters, armatures for conventional statues, and illegible cut-metal messages. His 24 Greek Ys look somewhat like stick-figures. They are reminiscent of the ages when letters were pictorial symbols and not just parts of words. Smith's 24 Ys perform a sprightly dance on the arms of a steel-candelabrum, spell out Smith's conviction that...
...report by Britain's Royal Society recorded the progress of the volcano's air wave. Another clocked the sea wave, which swept across the Indian Ocean and was measured by tidal gauges as far away as Britain. Oddly enough, both waves were reported in many distant places, including the English Channel, Panama and San Francisco, at the same time...
...looked interesting. The air wave and the sea wave did not travel at the same speed or by the same route. Why did they arrive together? Further study of the records showed that only the air wave could be a direct effect of the volcano's explosion. In distant places like England, the sea wave recorded on the tide gauges must have been "induced" by the air disturbance. Here was dramatic proof that events in the atmosphere do affect the sea below...
Donald Duck has not yet been called to testify before the Kefauver committee, but his appearance there could scarcely have been more surprising last week than the performance of his distant cousin, a politically conscious Hollywood owl. The owl, Dr. Owsley Hoot, brainchild of a onetime Disney employee named John Sutherland, is the chief character in Fresh Laid Plans, a nine-minute animated cartoon independently produced by Sutherland and distributed throughout the nation by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...basic ceiling on raw cotton at 45.76? a Ib. and futures at 45.39?. In near futures, prices went to the ceiling and stayed there. Spot cotton prices edged up but were still under the ceiling. With cotton farmers expected to turn out a bumper crop this year, distant cotton future prices were well below ceiling...