Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rice diet? Dr. Goldring believes that experiments with this diet have proved nothing at all. Low salt diet? "A treatment of doubtful value." Sympathectomy (cutting nerves leading to the body's small blood vessels)? It has not yet been shown to have much effect, but is "a highly desirable...
* One lamentable fact overlooked by Trud: when reports of Franklin's experiment reached Russia, Russian Scientist Georgy V. Richwan lofted a bigger, more aggressive kite and electrocuted himself.
Bonnard once pointed out (in a conversation quoted in Verve) that his personal brand of impressionism involved painting first impressions. He described an experiment in painting from nature instead of from memory which had ended in failure. "I tried to paint directly, scrupulously," he recalled, "and I let myself be...
Hits & Pieces. Experiment made more noise than news: the Experimental Theatre gave few signs of being experimental and fewer still of being theater. And Broadway had a more cosmopolitan look than at any time since the '303 - welcoming (not always too warmly) troupes and troupers from England, Eire, Palestine, France...
Orson Welles, back in Hollywood last week, called The Lady from Shanghai "an experiment - in what not to do." He figures he was trapped into making it by Columbia's Harry Cohn, who lent him $60,000 to get him out of a hole, made him promise to make...