Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blakelock, the American romantic landscapist (1847-1919), delighted in the rich gloss of bitumen, a poor-drying, brown pigment, which he used so excessively that the paint ultimately slipped on the canvas (e.g., in one of his landscapes owned by the Brooklyn Museum, paint ran down and over the frame). Edgar Degas, the French impressionist, striving for certain effects, sometimes reduced his paint to what he called essence by thinning it with gasoline. Now some of his oil paintings have turned chalky and are exhibited under glass...
...group plans to investigate all phases of undergraduate life, ranging from underclass curriculum, admissions, and the dormitory system, to perennial undergraduate gripes over parietal rules, compulsory chapel, and the car ban. These rules have gotten a "new look" for years, but in its present frame of mind, the University wants assurances that they are sound...
...they did have. I kept telling myself I could take as much as they could give out without breaking. Of course I knew that everybody has a breaking point, but fortunately we got out before I reached mine." When he realized that the Communists might be trying to frame him as a spy, Dixon's imagination went to work: "I fed them the line that I spent nearly as much time in Korea covering G.I. baking and beauty contests as on the war, and that if I was a spy at all, it must have been for the Miss...
Close to the Tiger. The whole catch was flown to Farnborough. where experts fitted the pieces together on a wooden frame, like a 3-D jigsaw puzzle. Meanwhile, crews of courageous scientists were flying another Comet (Able Victor) on a long series of hair-raising test flights. Careless of their own lives, they tried to duplicate the stresses that had destroyed Yoke Peter. As Sir Lionel described it, "they were going as close to the tiger as possible, hoping it would not get them." Able Victor did not crash; neither did Comet Yoke Sugar, whose fuel tanks were pressure-strained...
...given General Motors its record share of the auto business* looks as if he just stepped out of a Cadillac ad. His 5 ft. 9 in., 155-Ib. frame is usually clad in flawless blues and greys; at 61, his once brick-red hair and pencil-line mustache are grey, but his bright blue eyes sparkle like a newly polished car, his smile is as broad as a Cadillac grille. His voice is quiet, his manner calm. But under the Curtice hood there throbs a machine with the tireless power of one of his own 260-h.p. engines...