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...early in the war Nazi leaders have spared no effort to keep that morale high. U-boat crews have been treated like the supermen of the super race. When a sub comes in from a long cruise it is met at its base by a brass band, cheering dockworkers, flower-throwing civilians and a quayside loaded with the handsomest girls obtainable, primed to give their all for the returning heroes...
This was smart business. Most of the paintings were flower pieces, rural landscapes, near abstractions, street-scenes-with-elevated. A few were by the clenched-fist school. Some were competent and some were remarkably bad. But, good or bad, the wartime boom had long since included a heavy demand for cut-rate culture on the wall (TIME, Sept...
...clock and all civilian and V-12 students are invited. The usual non-alcoholic beverages will be served but far more important is the chance that here at last, after almost two weeks of utter stagnation, is your chance to gaze upon the flower of American womanhood and perhaps form the acquaintance of a life time...
...central altar goes back to early Christian times, was common up to the 9th Century. Today most churches do not have them. Some exceptions: St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City; Father Coughlin's Shrine of the Little Flower, Royal Oak, Mich...
...single intense day of disciplined haste, a final image is made. Because porcelain products shrink to one-third model-size when fired in the kiln (the temperature goes as high as 1,200° F.), they must be painstakingly pre-sized. Because thin, delicate clay shapes (such as flower petals) can stand less heat than heavier parts, porcelain models as variable as the Doughty birds are baked by a complicated shifting of heavy and light parts to higher and lower temperatures...