Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They played endless games, stopping traffic sometimes, but what did that matter? I have even seen the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée express train stopping when a bowling ball rolled on to the tracks. Do you think the Germans would understand a city like that...
Says Georgia O'Keeffe of her flower paintings: "I am attempting to express what I saw in a flower which apparently others failed to see." For years people have been seeing all kinds pf things in O'Keeffe's flowers. Critic Lewis Mumford has seen a celebration of "almost every phase of the erotic experience." Said he: "Socrates learned about love from the priestess Diotima; but if he were alive today, he would probably go to O'Keeffe." Painter Oscar Bluemner has written: ". . . O'Keeffe steps forth as [an] . . . imaginative biologist of all creation . . . extending...
...Keeffe decided she was "a very stupid fool" not to paint just as she wished, sent a roll of sketches to a friend in Manhattan on the "express condition that they were not to be shown to anyone." The friend promptly showed them to Dealer Alfred Stieglitz (TIME, Jan. 11). He gave an exhibition of O'Keeffe in his "291" gallery, persuaded her to devote all her time to painting, married her eight years later. Her first sale brought $400. In 1928 she got $25,000 for five paintings of lilies. She once sold a single picture...
Draft physical standards were upped to something approaching Navy-Marine volunteer standards. Registrants may express preference for any of the three services, are assured their choice will get "the fullest consideration practicable." Of those who pass, 20% will be sent to the seagoing outfits for training. The Army will get the rest. But the draftees who fail the test will not be sent home into Class 4-F. If they can meet the old physical standards they will be inducted, for service in the Army only...
...time, the program was announced in November, Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commission, expressed his approval of the scheme in a letter to President Conant. "I wish to express the approval of the War Manpower Commission of this project. I am gratified that the University is prepared to render this valuable service to war industry. The need for training in business and industrial management to serve the expanding war effort is critical...