Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calculation. And then I thought your readers would like to see how it comes out. Here it is: Take the circumference of the earth in inches. This comes from 3,963.4 x 6.2832 x 5280 x 12 [i.e., radius of earth multiplied by 2π, converted to inches]. Express this as 1.571 x 10^9. Let v equal the electron velocity and c the velocity of light. Then...
TRAVELER'S CHECK will cost more this summer. After 34 years of charging 75? per $100, American Express Co. has boosted fee to $1 per $100. First National City Bank and Bank of America have both followed suit, but British-owned Thos. Cook & Son is sticking to old rate...
...since been confirmed. The Foreign Office answer was a model of stiff-lipped embarrassment: "Commander Crabb carried out frogman tests, and, as is assumed, lost his life during these tests. His presence in the vicinity of the destroyers occurred without any permission whatever, and Her Majesty's Government express their regret at the incident...
...Change. In the Daily Express Etonian John Loder defiantly announced that he often uses "Cheers" when at "ritzy houses just to watch the horrified looks I get." Complained three aristocratic ladies, including a daughter of Lord Kilmuir: "We all come from what we thought were U families, but ... we all say 'mantlepiece' and have sugar in our coffee. Does this mean that we must change our classification?" On the contrary, said Sir Robert Boothby. In order to achieve a really classless society, "we must all become U as quickly as possible." But can the non-U speaker ever...
Another of Soutine's models was France's 19th century realist Gustave Courbet (TIME, Color Page April 30). who. said Soutine, "was able to express in the body of a woman the atmosphere of Paris. I want to show Paris in the carcass of an ox." This Soutine proceeded to do, hanging up a whole carcass in his studio, refreshing it periodically with a pail of blood from the butcher's shop until the stench of decay brought the police. But the resulting paintings today rank among Soutine's masterpieces. Soutine knew few moments of repose...